{"product_id":"9780340740804","title":"Mediating the Family Gender, Culture and Representation","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMediating the Family\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eGender, Culture and Representation\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEstella Tincknell\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ Marriage \u0026amp; Family\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking as its starting point the 'problem' of how the family has been \u003cbr\u003emediated in popular film, television, literature and social policy over \u003cbr\u003ethe last 50 years, Mediating the Family: Gender, Culture and \u003cbr\u003eRepresentation explores the ways in which struggles over sexuality, \u003cbr\u003eidentity, gender and power have informed the conceptualisation and \u003cbr\u003erepresentation of the family as an institution and as a site of \u003cbr\u003ediscursive complexity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMediating the Family: Gender, \u003cbr\u003eCulture and Representation 'unpacks the family', looking in detail at \u003cbr\u003ethe different generational and identificatory components: motherhood, \u003cbr\u003efatherhood, adolescence and childhood. Using theoretical and critical \u003cbr\u003eframeworks from cultural studies, sociology, textual analysis and \u003cbr\u003ecultural history, and drawing on original research, case studies and \u003cbr\u003ecritical analysis from a range of sources from around the world, the \u003cbr\u003ebook examines the relationship between the intersecting discourses of\t\u003cbr\u003eyouth;\tchildhood innocence;\tpost-war companionate marriage;\t'bad' \u003cbr\u003efamilies; and\tentrepreneurial femininity in the 1980s in order to \u003cbr\u003einterrogate the representation - and - reinvention of the family. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMediating\u003cbr\u003e the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation is an important \u003cbr\u003eintervention in debates about family relationships and will be essential\u003cbr\u003e reading for scholars and students of cultural, film and media studies, \u003cbr\u003esociology and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEstella Tincknell is Associate Head of the School of Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England. She is the co-author of The Practice of Cultural Studies (Sage, 2004) and is on the editorial board of Body and Society.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28 January 2005\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780340740804\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9.92\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369750462604,"sku":"9780340740804","price":52.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_9a7ec93d-82be-404b-ba0b-9329f8556f82.jpg?v=1783880343","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780340740804","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}