Skeletons in the closet : a sociological analysis of family conflicts

Sevʼer, Aysan, 1945- (Added Author). Trost, Jan, 1935- (Added Author).

Summary: Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study. In Skeletons in the Closet, and in line with feminist research methodologies, the hierarchical distance between researcher and subject is broken down. All of the contributors to this volume are academics, and all are closely related to the families they write about. Skeletons in the Closet consists of ten essays about unresolved or unresolvable family conflicts. The contributors start from the assumption that families-whether legal-marriage families, com.

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ISBN: 1554582652
ISBN: 9781554582655
ISBN: 9781299313361
ISBN: 1299313361
ISBN: 1554583187
ISBN: 9781554583188
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 212 pages)
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Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, ©2011

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Introduction: Opening Closets, Rattling Family Skeletons: What Will They Say?; 1 A Sudden Death and the Long-Term Fragmentation of a Family; 2 Grandmother and Grandson; 3 Rupture and Repair: The Cascading Effects of Mental Illness on a Family of Innocents; 4 "Not My Happy Ending": A Family Struggle to Define Roles in a Challenging Time; 5 My Sisters Are the Problem: Sibling Struggles over Power and Identity in Relation to Caring for an Aging Parent; 6 Sitting at the Steps of Hope, Love, and Hospitality.