The modern family is inundated with information and no family can attend to it all; families must set priorities and remain oblivious to much. Obliviousness is the intriguing subject of Paul C. Rosenblatt’s speculative and theoretical work. The hidden undersides of what families are aware of, know, and talk about are vast and complex, maintained at times with great effort, linked to important matters in the family and in society, necessary for family functioning but also, at times, a source of great difficulty. How are areas of obliviousness built up and maintained? How does a family overcome obliviousness that creates difficulty? Drawing on work in family systems, family therapy, whiteness and privilege, and social construction, among other research, this book is enlightening for all who work with, study, and care about the family.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Shared Obliviousness as a Family Systems Phenomenon
2. Family System Mechanisms for Maintaining Shared Obliviousness
3. Family Obliviousness to Context
4. Obliviousness to Matters within the Family
5. Shared Obliviousness and Family Decisions
6. Family System Responses to Threats to Obliviousness
7. Obliviousness and Family Therapy
8. Researching Shared Family Obliviousness
9. Shared Obliviousness Th at Is Not Quite Shared or Oblivious
10. The Future of Shared Family Obliviousness
References
Index
Circa l’autore
Paul C. Rosenblatt is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of many books, including
Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing, also published by SUNY Press;
African American Grief (with Beverly R. Wallace); and
Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child.
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