Family in Crisis? : : Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives / / ed. by Andrea Carosso, Eva-Sabine Zehelein, Aida Rosende-Pérez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Balestrino, Alice,; Carosso, Andrea,; Di Loreto, Sonia,; Dutta, Anatol,; Ferrer-Riba, Josep,; Georgi-Findlay, Brigitte,; Herrmann, Lee,; Legerén-Molina, Antonio,; Morello, Stefano,; Navarro Pérez, Margarita,; Pignagnoli, Virginia,; Roesch, Claudia,; Saraceno, Chiara,; Vaudagna, Maurizio,; Zehelein, Eva-Sabine,; Álvarez Bernardo, Gloria,
• HerausgeberIn: Carosso, Andrea,; Rosende-Pérez, Aida,; Zehelein, Eva-Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 221
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

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 - sitcoms, films, novels, short stories, and political magazines from Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain) and the US - (de)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses around topics such as fatherhoods, motherhoods, reproductive decisions, adoption, marriage, divorce, poverty, welfare, war, and the rhetoric of the nuclear family.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Family in Crisis? -- I. FAMILY – STATE – ECONOMY: Poverty, Welfare, Benefits -- The Long-Term Impact of Growing Up Poor – the Italian Case -- Family Change and Welfare Reform in the United States Since the 1970s -- Patrimonial Benefits Arising from Family Crises -- II. FAMILY – (MULTI)PARENTALITY – BELONGING: “It Takes a Village” -- Multiparentality and New Structures of Family Relationship -- Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Lesbian Families -- “He’s Not Family” -- Narrative Ethics in HBO’s Big Little Lies -- (De)Constructing Gender and Family Roles in Helen Simpson’s Short Stories -- Black Orphans, Adoption, and Labor in Antebellum American Literature -- III. FAMILY – SOCIETY – TOGETHERNESS: Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces -- Anne Frank, Franz Kafka and Charles Lindbergh “at the kitchen table in Newark” -- Family Crises on the Frontiers -- Cinematic Violence and Ideological Transgression -- Kinship at the Margins -- Donald the Family Planner -- Of Turkish Women and Other Foreigners -- Closing Remarks – By a Family Lawyer -- About the contributors