Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Where the Aunts Are

Family, Feminism, and Kinship in Popular Culture

Av Patricia J. Sotirin, Laura L. Ellingson

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While the aunt is one of the most iconic and beloved figures in popular culture, the societal role and import of real-life contemporary aunts are difficult to pin down. In some settings, she is the sole supporter, caregiver, or surrogate mother and exceeds her familial function as an aunt. In others, she subtly--or not so subtly--transgresses the assumed narrative of feminine identity. Surveying characters from Aunt Bee and Auntie Em to Bernie Mac's Aunt Wanda and House of Payne's Aunt Ella and countless living, breathing aunts across the country, Where the Aunts Are re-visions the ideals of family, femininity, and kinship and, in the process, offers a hopeful and progressive recognition of the multiple possibilities of womanhood in modern culture.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2013-02-15
Mått: 163 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt: 558 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 254
Förlag: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 9781602583306

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Patricia J. Sotirin is Professor of Communication at Michigan Technological University and co-author of Aunting: The Cultural Practices that Sustain Family and Community Life with Laura L. Ellingson.Laura L. Ellingson is Professor of Communication and Women's & Gender Studies at Santa Clara University and co-author of Aunting: The Cultural Practices that Sustain Family and Community Life with Patricia J. Sotirin.

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" Where the Aunts Are is an exacting examination of narratives of feminine identity, domestic life, and models of extended family. This smart, lucid book reveals how the aunt extends and transgresses normative feminine roles. Sotirin and Ellingson's expertise is on full display as they draw on a wide range of historical and cultural contexts to provide an in-depth feminist, post-structuralist analysis of the aunt as unconventional maternal substitute." --Robin R. Means Coleman, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and of AfroAmerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, and author of Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present

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