ISBN:
9781554582655
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 electronic text (vi, 212 p.))
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digital file
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Also available in print version
Parallel Title:
Print version Skeletons in the Closet : A Sociological Analysis of Family Conflicts
DDC:
306.85
Keywords:
Families
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Families -- Sociological aspects
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Dysfunctional families
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Family mediation
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Marriage
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study. In Skeletons in the Closet, and in line with feminist research methodologies, the hierarchical distance between researcher and subject is broken down. All of the contributors to this volume are academics, and all are closely related to the families they write about. Skeletons in the Closet consists of ten essays about unresolved or unresolvable family conflicts. The contributors start from the assumption that families-whether legal-marriage families
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction: Opening Closets, Rattling Family Skeletons: What Will They Say?; 1 A Sudden Death and the Long-Term Fragmentation of a Family; 2 Grandmother and Grandson; 3 Rupture and Repair: The Cascading Effects of Mental Illness on a Family of Innocents; 4 "Not My Happy Ending": A Family Struggle to Define Roles in a Challenging Time; 5 My Sisters Are the Problem: Sibling Struggles over Power and Identity in Relation to Caring for an Aging Parent; 6 Sitting at the Steps of Hope, Love, and Hospitality
Description / Table of Contents:
7 A Gay Actor with Multiple Scripts: Impression Management Strategies to Comply with Traditional Chinese Family Norms8 Noises and Unwanted Odours in Old Closets?; 9 A Brother No Longer: A Real Story of Family Dysfunction and Abuse; 10 Female Excommunicated: A Life Course and Family in Conflict with Norms and Tradition; Conclusion: Strategies That Work and That Fail to Work; Appendix; About the Editors
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Includes bibliographical references
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Also available in print version.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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