Over the last 40 years, the Canadian psychiatrist and family therapist Karl Tomm has been a key contributor to postmodern developments in family therapy (Collins & Tomm, 2009; Strong et al., 2008; Tomm, Hoyt, & Madigan, 2001). This dissertation traces the people, ideas, …
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It has been widely believed that modernity is a byproduct of a nuclear family system, a highly urbanized society, and a secular way of life. As such, developing countries are characterized as modern insofar as their social and cultural structures are able to correspond to these …
Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poetry, Life on Mars , has been celebrated and analyzed as an elegy to Smith's father by many reviewers and scholars. And while this reading is valid and has been openly endorsed by Smith herself, our understanding of this co…
Gender differences exist in families in all societies and cultures, but expectations are often different from one society/culture to another. Children's gender and its implications for family behavior have recently received a great deal of scholarly attention, especially in west…
Drawing on capabilities approach and the framework of family as a system of cooperative conflicts (Sen, 1990) the present study explores how interaction between Muslim immigrant mothers and their adolescent daughters about being Muslim in the U.S. shapes girls' agency in negotia…
Aci Tatli Yiyoruz explores transformations in gender, kin relationships and marriage in a Turkish village over a forty year period and argues that there is a connection between economic and social change, which is mediated by a local-level politicization of ideas of tradition an…
Profiles twenty-three children of the Civil Rights movement's leading figures including the daughter of former Alabama Governor George Wallace, the son of Martin Luther King, and Penny Liuzzo Herrington, daughter of Viola Liuzzo, who was killed during the Selma campaign.
Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognisable figures in the civil rights movement, this title collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America.
A guide to help parents teach their daughters to resist negative cultural messages. Never before have adolescent girls faced so many confusing and contradictory expectations. From a young age, popular culture teaches girls that their worth is based on their appearance, their abi…
"Many of today's parents struggle with their approach in raising a healthy daughter within our complex culture. Never before have girls been faced with so many pressures to live up to confusing and often contradictory cultural expectations. These burdens are intense, newly evolv…
"Many of today's parents struggle with their approach in raising a healthy daughter within our complex culture. Never before have girls been faced with so many pressures to live up to confusing and often contradictory cultural expectations. These burdens are intense, newly evolv…
