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This scholarly volume examines communications processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Miller-Day uses the device of layering to integrate and juxtapose alternative experiences of the social world. This allows the reader to be ...

This scholarly volume examines communications processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Miller-Day uses the device of layering to integrate and juxtapose alternative experiences of the social world. This allows the reader to be situated in the world of grandmothers, mothers, adult daughters, and granddaughters as they experience, describe, and analyze their family communication. The book describes and interprets the patterns of communication among female family members that provide symbolic links across generations. Drawing on eight months of qualitative research, using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book provides a heuristic account of intergenerational mother-daughter relational communication. This book builds upon and extends earlier qualitative research to include the experiences of multiple families, as well as maternal grandmothers. With the inclusion of aged mothers as well as younger mid-life mothers and their adult daughters, Miller-Day seeks to illuminate how this relationship is experienced at different points in a woman's life. In addition, in studying three generations of women, she gathers multigenerational perspectives on family, and then examines these for patterns of maternal interaction transmitted across generational boundaries. Scholars and researchers in the areas of family communication, intergenerational communication, women's studies, family studies, interpersonal communication, relationships, and others (social workers, psychologists, counselors) who need to understand family communication processes and their dynamicsacross generational lines will all benefit from the wealth of material included in this volume.

Larry Carbone, a veterinarian who is in charge of the lab animal welfare assurance program at a major research university, presents this scholarly history of animal rights. Biomedical researchers, and the less fanatical among the animal rights activists will find this book reasonable, humane, and ...

Larry Carbone, a veterinarian who is in charge of the lab animal welfare assurance program at a major research university, presents this scholarly history of animal rights. Biomedical researchers, and the less fanatical among the animal rights activists will find this book reasonable, humane, and novel in its perspective. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate.

The increasing realization among behaviorists and psychologists is that many animals learn by observation as members of social systems. Such settings contribute to the formation of culture. This authoritative book combines the knowledge of two groups of scientists with different backgrounds to ...

The increasing realization among behaviorists and psychologists is that many animals learn by observation as members of social systems. Such settings contribute to the formation of culture. This authoritative book combines the knowledge of two groups of scientists with different backgrounds to establish a working consensus for future research. Various perspectives on controversial topics by a well-known, international, and interdisciplinary team are presented in this unique text. Social Learning in Animals is essential as an introduction to this field of study as well as a starting point for the more experienced researcher.

"Zuk's analogies are better than anyone's--pithy, insightful, and funny. Who said feminists lack humor? Zuk made me laugh with deep pleasure more than once, as she reviewed the lessons of feminism for our understanding of non-human animals. Her main point--that studying the lives of non-humans ...

"Zuk's analogies are better than anyone's--pithy, insightful, and funny. Who said feminists lack humor? Zuk made me laugh with deep pleasure more than once, as she reviewed the lessons of feminism for our understanding of non-human animals. Her main point--that studying the lives of non-humans should not be for the lessons they seem to provide for our political purposes, but for the pleasure of knowing nature on its own terms--will be compelling reading for all naturalists, feminists and not-feminists alike."--Patricia Adair Gowaty, editor of "Feminism and Evolutionary Biology

"Marlene Zuk uniquely combines a great breadth of knowledge about the behavior of animals with an ability to challenge conventional wisdom. She also writes with a graceful style and a mischievous wit. The result is a bold, fresh and feminist book about how our sex lives evolved."--Matt Ridley, author of "Genome

"This is an engaging and much needed book, which I hope will be widely read."--Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of"Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species