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Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication bridges the significant gap in family communication literature by providing a thorough examination of lesser-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.
Communication over the Life Span: The Mother-Adult Daughter Relationship
Communication over the Life Span: The Mother-Adult Daughter Relationship
… the daughter is for the mother at once her double and another person.
In her 1992 book Lives Together, Worlds Apart, Suzanna Danuta Walters discussed how television and films have represented the mother-daughter relationship as one of never-ending conflict, with mothers either being martyrs or malevolent beings. Walters argued that this image of mothers might be seen as necessary for daughters in American culture in order to justify their fight for independence from their mothers. In one contemporary television show, The Gilmore Girls, three generations of mothers and daughters are represented, with Emily Gilmore depicted as the martyred and controlling mother/grandmother ...
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