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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.
The “Other” Women in Family Life: Aunt/Niece/Nephew Communication
The “Other” Women in Family Life: Aunt/Niece/Nephew Communication
Aunts are familiar characters in personal and popular family dramas. 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 makes the aunt/niece/nephew relationship, or the aunting relationship as we refer to it, a rich and fascinating focus for scholarly study. Yet there has been little systematic analysis of the meanings or communicative practices that make up the aunting relationship. In this chapter, we encourage research into the aunting relationship for several reasons.
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