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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction: Family in Crisis? 9
4. I. FAMILY – STATE – ECONOMY: Poverty, Welfare, Benefits
5. The Long-Term Impact of Growing Up Poor – the Italian Case 27
6. Family Change and Welfare Reform in the United States Since the 1970s 37
7. Patrimonial Benefits Arising from Family Crises 47
8. II. FAMILY – (MULTI)PARENTALITY – BELONGING: “It Takes a Village”
9. Multiparentality and New Structures of Family Relationship 59
10. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Lesbian Families 79
11. “He’s Not Family” 89
12. Narrative Ethics in HBO’s Big Little Lies 101
13. (De)Constructing Gender and Family Roles in Helen Simpson’s Short Stories 111
14. Black Orphans, Adoption, and Labor in Antebellum American Literature 123
15. III. FAMILY – SOCIETY – TOGETHERNESS: Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces
16. Anne Frank, Franz Kafka and Charles Lindbergh “at the kitchen table in Newark” 135
17. Family Crises on the Frontiers 145
18. Cinematic Violence and Ideological Transgression 155
19. Kinship at the Margins 167
20. Donald the Family Planner 181
21. Of Turkish Women and Other Foreigners 193
22. Closing Remarks – By a Family Lawyer 205
23. About the contributors 209