Rearticulating the aunt: Feminist alternatives of family, care, and kinship in popular performances of aunting

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 442-459

  Sotirin, Patty ^a   Ellingson, Laura L ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation; Aunt; Family; Feminist analysis; Kinship; Popular culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249159607     PISSN: 15327086     EISSN: 1552356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532708607304538     Document Type: Article

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