Rearticulating the Aunt

Feminist Alternatives of Family, Care, and Kinship in Popular Performances of Aunting

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2408232
AutoresPatty Sotirin, Laura L Ellingson (0000-0001-9222-1449)
Año2007
Volumen7
Número4
Páginas442-459
Fecha de publicación2007-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708607304538
OpenAlexW1983068926
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

The aunt in contemporary Anglo-American culture is a deserving though oft-overlooked cultural identity for critical feminist analysis. This article examines selected performances of aunting in contemporary U.S. popular culture to illustrate how the cultural work of aunting articulates both dominant and transgressive constructions of family, care, kinship, and feminine agency. The quiet transgressions of popular aunt figures offer potent sites for progressive feminist rearticulations of family life and kinship relations

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Aunt · Genealogy · Identity (music · Kinship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Gender Studies · History