| Description |
xv, 254 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
LEA's series on personal relationships |
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LEA's series on personal relationships.
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| Contents |
1. Velvet chains : understanding maternal relationships -- 2. The qualitative research journey : "how did I get here and where am I going?" -- 3. Grandmothers, mothers, and adult daughters in Elkwood -- 4. Contradictions -- 5. Patterns of interaction : best intentions, bitter regret, resentment, and love -- 6. Theoretical development -- 7. Grandmothers, mothers, and adult daughters : a force to be reckoned with |
| Summary |
"This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-adult daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book offers a heuristic account of intergenerational mother-daughter relational communication." "Author Michelle A. Miller-Day integrates and juxtaposes alternative experiences of social interaction, situating readers in the world of grandmothers, mothers, adult daughters, and granddaughters as they experience, describe, and analyze their family communication. Miller-Day incorporates aged-mothers and younger mid-life mothers and their adult daughters into the research to illustrate how this type of maternal relationship is experienced at different points in a woman's life. With the inclusion of three generations of women, Miller-Day offers multigenerational perspectives on family, and examines them for patterns of maternal interaction, providing symbolic links across generational boundaries." "Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters: A Qualitative Study of Maternal Relationships enables readers to understand more completely the richly textured nature of maternal relationships. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers in the areas of communication and relationships, including family communication, intergenerational communication, women's studies, family studies, interpersonal communication, and relationships, as well as social workers, psychologists, and counselors, who strive to understand family communication processes and their dynamics across generational lines."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index |
| Subject |
Parent and adult child.
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Mothers and daughters.
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Intergenerational relations.
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| LC no. |
2003064201 |
| ISBN |
0805839798 cloth alkaline paper |
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