Remaking «Family» Communicatively - Couverture souple

Baxter, Leslie A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1433120461 ISBN 13 : 9781433120466

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2014

Synopsis

Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural ideal face a discursive burden to legitimate their identity as a "family." This volume gathers together communication scholars who are working on the many kinds of alternative family forms, from, among others, grandfamilies, diasporic immigrant families, and military families to in (voluntarily) childless families and stepfamilies. The organizing question for the volume focuses on resistance, reconstruction, and resilience : how is it that alternatives to the traditional family are constructed and sustained through communicative practices ? Several chapters adopt a global perspective, thereby framing the issue of legitimation of "family" in a broader cultural context. None of the family forms described in this volume meets the ideological "gold standard" of the nuclear family, and in this sense they all represent a remaking of the family in profound ways.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leslie A. Baxter (PhD, University of Oregon), is Collegiate Fellow and Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. She received the 2007 Bernard J. Brommel Award for outstanding scholarship in family communication from the National Communication Association (NCA) as well as the 2011 Family Communication Division Outstanding Book Award, among others. In 2008 she was given NCA's highest honor by being named an NCA Distinguished Scholar.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1433120461
• ISBN 13: 9781433120466
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne