*Constructing Motherhood and Daughterhood Across the Lifespan ***** explores the complex dynamics between mother and daughter over the lifespan. This book builds on and contributes to the critical and theoretical research in family communication, media studies, and gender studies.

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.

Autorentext

Allison M. Alford (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin) is Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Communication at Baylor University. She has been teaching communication courses at the post-secondary level since 2005.

Michelle Miller-Day (Ph.D., Arizona State University) is Professor of Communication Studies at Chapman University. She is the recipient of the 2015 Bernard J. Brommel Career Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Distinguished Service in Family Communication by the National Communication Association.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Tables and Figure Thomas J. Socha: Preface from the Series Editor Acknowledgments Allison M. Alford/Michelle Miller-Day: Introduction Allison M. Alford: Daughtering and Daughterhood: Adult Daughters in Communication with Their Mothers Allison M. Alford: Mothering and Motherhood: Socially Constructing the Role of Mothers Michelle Miller-Day/Riva Tukachinsky/Sydney Jacobs: Reel Mothers and Daughters Michelle Miller-Day: Memorable Moments: Turning Points in the Mother-Daughter Relationship from Childhood to Mid-Life Denise Lawler: Pregnancy and Disability Colleen Warner Colaner/Haley Kranstuber Horstman/Maria Butauski: Sustaining and Draining? Adoptive Mothers' Enactment of Rituals in Open Adoption Relationships Wendy K. Watson/Sandra L. Faulkner: Mother-Daughter Communication About Sex and Sexuality Across the Life Course Suellen Hopfer/Huong Duong/Samantha Garcia: Mother-Daughter Communication About HPV Vaccination Megan Meadows/Meredith Marko Harrigan: "A Different Closeness": Emerging Adult Daughters' Depictions of Their Relational Changes with Their Mothers Aimee E. Miller-Ott: "We Talk Like Friends": Openness and Closedness in the Mother/Married Daughter Relationship Aimee E. Miller-Ott/Lynne Kelly: Connection or Intrusion? Mother-Daughter Communication Through Technology Jody Koenig Kellas/Amanda Holman/Elizabeth Flood-Grady: Storying Love: Retrospective Storytelling Between Mothers and Daughters Meredith Marko Harrigan/Angela M. Hosek/Seungji Yang: Busy Squirrels, Well-Oiled Machines, and Warm Bread: Adult Daughters' Discursive Constructions of Their Full-Time Working Mothers Christine E. Rittenour/Kelly G. Odenweller: It's Not that Easy: Challenges of Motherhood Carla L. Fisher/Bianca M. Wolf: Understanding Mother-Daughter Communication and Health Through a Discourse of "Responsible Womanhood" Leah M. Seurer: Communicating About Mental Health in the Mother-Daughter Dyad Michelle Miller-Day/Danielle Grainger: Motherless Daughters and the Communication of Grief and Comfort Melissa W. Alemán/Katherine W. Helfrich: Making Difficult Conversations Normal in Later Life: Mother-Daughter Communication, Narrative Inheritance, and Planning for Death Maureen P. Keeley/Lauren Lee/Mark A. Generous: Mothers' and Daughters' End-of-Life Communication Michelle Miller-Day: A Mother-Daughter Communication Course Guide Contributors Subject Index.