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Family in Crisis? Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives Eva-Sabine Zehelein, Andrea Carosso, Aida Rosende-Pérez
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Culture & theory ; Volume 221.
- Edition Kulturwissenschaft
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family.
- Popular Culture.
- Reproduction.
- Parenthood.
- US.
- Europe.
- Migration.
- Law.
- Cultural Studies.
- Gender Studies.
- American Studies.
- Sociology of Family.
- Local Subjects:
- Family.
- Popular Culture.
- Reproduction.
- Parenthood.
- US.
- Europe.
- Migration.
- Law.
- Cultural Studies.
- Gender Studies.
- American Studies.
- Sociology of Family.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Zehelein et al. (eds.), Family in Crisis? Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Biography/History:
- Eva-Sabine Zehelein is an adjunct professor of American studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and fellow at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. She specializes in 20th and 21st century North American literatures and (popular) cultures and leads the international and interdisciplinary research group »Family Matters«.
- Andrea Carosso is a professor of American literature and culture at the Department of International Languages and Literatures at Università di Torino, where he coordinates the post-graduate program in English and American Studies. His books include Cold War Narratives. American Culture in the 1950s (2012), Urban Cultures in the United States (2010), and Invito alla lettura di Vladimir Nabokov (1999).
- Aida Rosende-Pérez is an assistant professor at the University of the Balearic Islands, where she teaches in the fields of American literature and culture, as well as gender studies. Her research has focused primarily on the politics and poetics of transnational feminism, with emphasis on the narratives and (audio)visual productions of contemporary Irish women writers and artists.
- Summary:
- Is the family in crisis? Or do crises crystallize in families' lived realities? Families as constitutive units of all social architectures are central to our democracies. In this book, scholars from cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today's rainbow variety of families crosses borders and how cultural texts – films, TV-series, novels, short stories and magazines, from Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain) and the US – (de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses around topics such as father(hood)s, mother(hood)s and parentage, reproductive decisions and adoption, marriage and divorce, poverty and welfare, and the rhetoric of the nuclear family.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction: Family in Crisis? 9 The Long-Term Impact of Growing Up Poor - the Italian Case 27 Family Change and Welfare Reform in the United States Since the 1970s 37 Patrimonial Benefits Arising from Family Crises 47 Multiparentality and New Structures of Family Relationship 59 Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Lesbian Families 79 "He's Not Family" 89 Narrative Ethics in HBO's Big Little Lies 101 (De)Constructing Gender and Family Roles in Helen Simpson's Short Stories 111 Black Orphans, Adoption, and Labor in Antebellum American Literature 123 Anne Frank, Franz Kafka and Charles Lindbergh "at the kitchen table in Newark" 135 Family Crises on the Frontiers 145 Cinematic Violence and Ideological Transgression 155 Kinship at the Margins 167 Donald the Family Planner 181 Of Turkish Women and Other Foreigners 193 Closing Remarks - By a Family Lawyer 205 About the contributors 209
- ISBN:
- 9783839450611
- 3839450616
- OCLC:
- 1182840223
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