TY - BOOK AU - Balestrino,Alice AU - Carosso,Andrea AU - Di Loreto,Sonia AU - Dutta,Anatol AU - Ferrer-Riba,Josep AU - Georgi-Findlay,Brigitte AU - Herrmann,Lee AU - Legerén-Molina,Antonio AU - Morello,Stefano AU - Navarro Pérez,Margarita AU - Pignagnoli,Virginia AU - Roesch,Claudia AU - Rosende-Pérez,Aida AU - Saraceno,Chiara AU - Vaudagna,Maurizio AU - Zehelein,Eva-Sabine AU - Álvarez Bernardo,Gloria TI - Family in Crisis?: Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives T2 - Edition Kulturwissenschaft SN - 9783837650617 PY - 2020///] CY - Bielefeld : PB - transcript Verlag, KW - Families KW - American Studies KW - Cultural Studies KW - Europe KW - Gender Studies KW - Law KW - Migration KW - Parenthood KW - Popular Culture KW - Reproduction KW - Sociology of Family KW - US KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839450611?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839450611 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839450611/original ER -