Family in Crisis?: Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives

Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Family in Crisis?

Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives

Edited by: Eva-Sabine Zehelein , Andrea Carosso and Aida Rosende-Pérez

Volume 221 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839450611

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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.

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction: Family in Crisis? What Crossing Borders and Crossing Narratives Tell Us About the State of the Family (Today) Eva-Sabine Zehelein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
I. FAMILY – STATE – ECONOMY: Poverty, Welfare, Benefits
The Long-Term Impact of Growing Up Poor – the Italian Case Chiara Saraceno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Family Change and Welfare Reform in the United States Since the 1970s Maurizio Vaudagna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Patrimonial Benefits Arising from Family Crises Antonio Legerén-Molina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
II. FAMILY – (MULTI)PARENTALITY – BELONGING: “It Takes a Village”
Multiparentality and New Structures of Family Relationship Josep Ferrer-Riba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Lesbian Families Gloria Álvarez Bernardo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
“He’s Not Family” Family Between Genetic Essentialism and Social Parenthood in MTV’s Docu-Diary Generation Cryo (2013) Eva-Sabine Zehelein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Narrative Ethics in HBO’s Big Little Lies Reframing Motherhood Virginia Pignagnoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
(De)Constructing Gender and Family Roles in Helen Simpson’s Short Stories Margarita Navarro Pérez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Black Orphans, Adoption, and Labor in Antebellum American Literature Sonia Di Loreto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
III. FAMILY – SOCIETY – TOGETHERNESS: Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces
Anne Frank, Franz Kafka and Charles Lindbergh “at the kitchen table in Newark” Philip Roth’s Autofictional Holocaust Alice Balestrino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Family Crises on the Frontiers Nation, Gender, and Belonging in US Television Westerns Brigitte Georgi-Findlay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Cinematic Violence and Ideological Transgression The Family in Crisis in the 1977 Horror Film The Hills Have Eyes Lee Herrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Kinship at the Margins Punk-Rock Modes of (Dis-)Association Stefano Morello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Donald the Family Planner How Disney Embraced Population Control Andrea Carosso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Of Turkish Women and Other Foreigners Family Planning and Guest Workers in 1980s West Germany Claudia Roesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Closing Remarks – By a Family Lawyer Anatol Dutta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
About the contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Popular Culture; Reproduction; Parenthood; US; Europe; Migration; Law; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; American Studies; Sociology of Family

eBook

Published: July 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839450611