{"product_id":"9780340740804","title":"Mediating the Family : Gender, Culture and Representation","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMediating the Family\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Estella Tincknell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking as its starting point the \"problem\" of how the family has been mediated in popular film, television, literature and social policy over the last 50 years, \u003ci\u003eMediating the Family\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eGender, Culture and Representation\u003c\/i\u003e  explores the ways in which struggles over sexuality, identity, gender and power have informed the conceptualization and representation of the family as an institution and as a site of discursive complexity. This study unpacks the family, looking in detail at the different generational and identificatory components: motherhood, fatherhood, adolescence and childhood. Using theoretical and critical frameworks from cultural studies, sociology, textual analysis and cultural history, and drawing on original research, case studies and critical analysis from a range of sources from around the world, the book examines the relationship between the intersecting discourses of: DT youth DT childhood innocence DT post-war companionate marriage DT bad families DT entrepreneurial femininity in the 1980s in order to interrogate the representation DT and reinvention of the family. \u003ci\u003eMediating the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation\u003c\/i\u003e  is an important intervention in debates about family relationships and will be essential reading for scholars and students of cultural, film and media studies, sociology and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780340740804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593919344846,"sku":"9780340740804","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_9587a818-5d0d-49e5-8099-7df4f9d089b6.jpg?v=1637796694","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780340740804","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}