Writing the family : : women, auto-ethnography, and family work / / Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs.

• Superior document: Transgressions : cultural studies and education ; v. 80
• Author: Skott-Myhre, Kathleen.
• TeilnehmendeR: Weima, Korinne.; Gibbs, Helen.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed. 2012.
• Language: English
• Series: Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This is not a traditional book about the family. In a very essential way, it is a book about being a woman in relation to the current form of the family under capitalism in North America. The authors are three women whose interest in the family stems out of their own unique and varied experiences. The text is comprised of three autoethnographies that look at the family from radically distinct perspectives. Each section is rooted in the author’s own personal and professional life experience. The book explores multi-cultural family therapy, living inside a divorcing family, the role of child protective services, issues of class and race in a family’s identity, how media and pop psychology shape our view of the family, and what it is to be female in a patriarchal family system. All three women are currently working with young people in various capacities. Each section offers new ways to work together with young people to reshape the family so that it better serves those who live within it.

Table of Contents

pt. I. My two families : an auto-ethnography of the internalized lived by and lived with family experience -- pt. II. Learning my mother's magic -- pt. III. Foucault and power in child protection.