This timely book explores the complex dynamics between mother and daughter over the lifespan. We believe that these vital family roles are socially and communicatively constructed, shaped, and molded as mothers and daughters navigate, respond to, and negotiate cultural and familial discourses. Aimed at undergraduate students, Constructing Motherhood and Daughterhood across the Lifespan includes course activities and discussion questions in every chapter and a complete term syllabus to power up a professor's teaching, providing a smooth route for adoption as a course text. This book builds on...

This timely book explores the complex dynamics between mother and daughter over the lifespan. We believe that these vital family roles are socially and communicatively constructed, shaped, and molded as mothers and daughters navigate, respond to, and negotiate cultural and familial discourses. Aimed at undergraduate students, Constructing Motherhood and Daughterhood across the Lifespan includes course activities and discussion questions in every chapter and a complete term syllabus to power up a professor's teaching, providing a smooth route for adoption as a course text. This book builds on...