{"product_id":"mediating-the-family-estella-tincknell-9780340740804","title":"Mediating the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaking as its starting point the \"problem\" of how the family has been mediated in popular film, television, literature and social policy over the last 50 years, \u003ci\u003eMediating the Family\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eGender, Culture and Representation\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways in which struggles over sexuality, identity, gender and power have informed the conceptualization and representation of the family as an institution and as a site of discursive complexity. This study unpacks the family, looking in detail at the different generational and identificatory components: motherhood, fatherhood, adolescence and childhood. Using theoretical and critical frameworks from cultural studies, sociology, textual analysis and cultural history, and drawing on original research, case studies and critical analysis from a range of sources from around the world, the book examines the relationship between the intersecting discourses of: DT youth DT childhood innocence DT post-war companionate marriage DT bad families DT entrepreneurial femininity in the 1980s in order to interrogate the representation DT and reinvention of the family. \u003ci\u003eMediating the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation\u003c\/i\u003e is an important intervention in debates about family relationships and will be essential reading for scholars and students of cultural, film and media studies, sociology and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Estella Tincknell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0340740809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780340740804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e A\u0026amp;c Black 3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.14w x 0.38d","brand":"Estella Tincknell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425012203775,"sku":"9780340740804","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b89089f-511a-496f-9906-f7bfd9571a69.jpg?v=1761536394","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mediating-the-family-estella-tincknell-9780340740804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}