Family Stories, Poetry, and Women's Work

Knit Four, Frog One (Poems)

von Sandra L Faulkner

130 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book is a memoir in poetry about family stories, mother-daughter relationships, women's work, mothering, writing, family secrets, and patterns of communication in close relationships. Faulkner knits connections between a DIY (do-it-yourself) value, economics, and family culture through the use of poems and images, which present four generations of women in her family and trouble "women's work" of mothering, cooking and crafting. Family stories anchor family culture and provide insight into relational and family life. This work may be used as a teaching tool to get us to think about the stories that we tell and don't tell in families and the importance of how family is created, maintained, and altered in our stories. The poetry voices the themes of economic and collective family self-reliance and speaks to cultural discourses of feminist resistance and resilience, relational and personal identities. This book can be read for pleasure as a collection of poetry or used as a springboard for reflection and discussion in courses such as family communication, sociology of gender and the family, psychology of women, relational communication, and women's studies.Nominated: National Communication Association Ethnography Division--Best Book 2015Nominated: OSCLG Creative Expression Award 2015Nominated: 2016 International Association of Relationship Research Book AwardNominated: 2016 ICQI (International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry) Qualitative Book Award

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Gruppen Frauen und Mädchen
• ISBN: 9789462098473
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2014
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Brill