http://parenting-n-families.com/content/family-relationships/2010031713399.html Raising Your Kids and Keeping Your Cool Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:11:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://parenting-n-families.com/content/family-relationships/2010031713399.html/comment-page-1#comment-56459 Anonymous Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:46:03 +0000 http://parenting-n-families.com/content/family-relationships/2010031713399.html#comment-56459 As a young family therapy student, I was very taken with this book because it clearly and consistently applies family therapy approaches (although mostly the structural, modernist kinds) through a feminist lens. The case studies were very helpful, especially the transcripts which helped me to envision what therapeutic dialogue might sound like.<p>However, some years have now passed, and a re-read of this book left me frustrated and irritated. The authors seem to have a very limited perspective on family gender roles, centered around a white, middle-class, heterosexist perspective. Many times authors speak in generalities about what "mothers and daughters" or "fathers and daughters" do in their relationships with one another, and I find myself writing notes in the margin: "says who?" "Not in my family!" etc.<p>This book is helpful for students if taken with a grain of salt and presented by an instructor versed in more postmodern techniques and multicultural critiques. As a young family therapy student, I was very taken with this book because it clearly and consistently applies family therapy approaches (although mostly the structural, modernist kinds) through a feminist lens. The case studies were very helpful, especially the transcripts which helped me to envision what therapeutic dialogue might sound like.However, some years have now passed, and a re-read of this book left me frustrated and irritated. The authors seem to have a very limited perspective on family gender roles, centered around a white, middle-class, heterosexist perspective. Many times authors speak in generalities about what “mothers and daughters” or “fathers and daughters” do in their relationships with one another, and I find myself writing notes in the margin: “says who?” “Not in my family!” etc.This book is helpful for students if taken with a grain of salt and presented by an instructor versed in more postmodern techniques and multicultural critiques.

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