Writing the Family

Women, Auto-Ethnography, and Family Work
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-94-6091-747-9
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 451 g

Reihe: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education

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.

Cover photo by Zakk Malecha

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skott-Myhre, Kathleen

Weima, Korinne

Gibbs, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung