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When family members experience a diagnosis of a chronic disease
(e.g., cancer) or a health crisis (e.g., postpartum depression),
not only the diagnosed individuals but entire families experience
immediate and long-term stress as a consequence. Families with
members dealing with serious health conditions may be confronted
with significant challenges posed by treatment regimes, impacts on
day-to-day activities, disruption of family roles, the threat of
possible death, and a host of psychosocial challenges. This book is
about families facing these challenges, uncertain about what to do,
how to help, or how the condition will affect their daily life.
Providing a coherent discussion of original research that examines
communication patterns and processes involved in the day-to-day
management of health conditions, this book lays bare the raw
emotional experiences of families communicating with one another
amid uncertainty and, for some, in the face of death.
Constructing Motherhood and Daughterhood Across the Lifespan
explores the complex dynamics between mother and daughter over the
lifespan. The editors believe that these vital family roles are
socially and communicatively constructed, shaped, and molded as
mothers and daughters navigate, respond to, and negotiate cultural
and familial discourses. Aimed at undergraduate students, this
timely book includes course activities and discussion questions in
every chapter and a complete term syllabus to enhance a professor's
teaching, providing a smooth route for adoption as a course text.
The book also builds on and contributes to the critical and
theoretical research in family communication, media studies, and
gender studies, delving into the nuanced communication surrounding
motherhood and daughterhood in the United States.
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