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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 familiesâwhether legal-marriage families, common-law marriage families, single-parent families, multiple-generation families, same-sex partnerships, or adoptive familiesâare cradles of intense emotion. That intensity, they argue, may translate into conflict, competition, domination, abuse, exploitation, or even hate. This book explores those areas most likely to grip family members in unresolved interpersonal strife, as well as the strategies people use to solve the issues and the shame and isolation that conflict brings in societies that normatively expect family life to be one of joy, mutual sharing, and caring. This first-hand narration of family conflict by social scholars has much to contribute to sociological studies of the family, both methodologically and theoretically. The introduction and conclusion place family conflict within sociological and social psychological theories and methods.

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Table of Contents for Skeletons in the Closet: A Sociological Analysis of Famly Conflicts , edited by Aysan Sevâer and Jan E. Trost Introduction: Opening Closets, Rattling Family Skeletons: What Will They Say? | Aysan Sevâer (University of Toronto Scarborough) and Jan Trost (Uppsala University, Sweden) 1. A Sudden Death and the Long-term Fragmentation of a Family | Aysan Sevâer (University of Toronto Scarborough) 2. Grandmother and Grandson | Jan Trost (Uppsala University, Sweden) 3. Rupture and Repair: The Cascading Effects of Mental Illness on a Family of Innocents | Sheldon Ungar (University of Toronto Scarborough) 4. âNot My Happy Endingâ: A Family Struggle to Define Roles in a Challenging Time | Thembela Kepe (University of Toronto Scarborough) 5. My Sisters Are the Problem: Sibling Struggles over Power and Identity in Relation to Caring for an Aging Parent | Bonnie Lashewicz (University of Calgary) 6. Sitting at the Steps of Hope, Love, and Hospitality | Hugo Kamya (Simmons College, Boston) 7. A Gay Actor with Multiple Scripts: Impression Management Strategies to Comply with Traditional Chinese Family Norms | Kin Ho Wong (Ryerson University) 8. Noises and Unwanted Odours in Old Closets? | Si Transken (University of Northern British Columbia) 9. A Brother No Longer: A Real Story of Family Dysfunction and Abuse | Anonymous 10. Female Excommunicated: A Life-Course and Family in Conflict with Norms and Tradition | Clary Krekula (Karlstad University, Sweden) Conclusion: Strategies That Work and That Fail to Work | Aysan Sevâer (University of Toronto Scarborough) and Jan Trost (Uppsala University, Sweden) Appendix About the Editors

About the Author :
Aysan Sevâer is a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. She is the founding editor of the Womenâs Health & Urban Life Journal and the recipient of the Canadian Personâs Day Award (1998), Canadian Sociology & Anthropology Association Service Award (2001), Daughters of Ataturk Award (2003), and the Canadian Womenâs Studies Association Book Award (2004). Her most recent book, on honour-killings in southeastern Turkey, is forthcoming. Jan E. Trost is a professor emeritus of sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is Honorary President of the Committee on Family Research of the International Sociological Association. In 1999 the National Council on Family Research inaugurated the Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Family Studies. He has published hundreds of articles and more than forty books. His work has focused mainly on theory development of symbolic interaction and in application on family and disaster studies as well as sexology.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781554587834
  • Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Sociological Analysis of Family Conflicts
  • ISBN-10: 1554587832
  • Publisher Date: 28 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 222


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