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Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication, Second Edition continues to address historically under-studied family relationships, such as those involving grandparents, in-laws, cousins, stepfamilies, and adoptive parents. In this engaging text, editors Kory Floyd and Mark T. Morman bring together a diverse collection of empirical studies, theoretic essays, and critical reviews of literature on communication to constitute a stronger, more complete understanding of communication within the family.
The “Other” Women in Family Life: Recognizing the Significance of Aunt/Niece/Nephew Communication
The “Other” Women in Family Life: Recognizing the Significance of Aunt/Niece/Nephew Communication
Aunts persist as familiar characters in personal and popular family narratives. They may be beloved or reviled, intimately close or aloof and distant, central in family networks or rarely seen outliers, related by blood or legal ties or unrelated except by friendship. These rich variations, coupled with the gendered identity of the aunt role, make the aunt/niece/nephew relationship a rich and fascinating focus for scholarly study. In this chapter, we review research related to and focusing on the aunt relationship and encourage further investigation for several reasons.
First, knowing more about aunt/niece/nephew relationships promises to enrich our understanding of ...
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