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The Emergence of Family into the 21st Century

Author(s): Patricia L. Munhall, EdD, ARNP, NCPsyA, FAAN, International Institute for Human Understanding
Virginia M. Fitzsimons, Kean University of New Jersey, Union, New Jersey
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763711054
  • ISBN-10:0763711055
  • Paperback    368 pages      © 2001
Price: International Sales $82.95 US List
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Current realities and future possibilities for family life are explored in this unique interdisciplinary collection of papers.  The Emergence of Family into the 21st Century is an offering of views and contrasts, complicities and vagaries, analyses and recollections.  

Through understanding the complexities of family, both the good and the bad, the contributors to this narrative begin to give us an agenda from which to contribute to programs that encourage life-enhancing, peaceful, loving, free, and liberated families.

There are three titles in the Emergence series:

  • The Emergence of Women into the 21st Century (ISBN: 0887376622)
  • The Emergence of Family into the 21st Century (ISBN: 0763711055)
  • The Emergence of Man into the 21st Century (ISBN: 0763711721)

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The second in the Emergence series, the purpose of which is to increase the understanding of others through the use of phenomenological approach
The editors believe that a social, ethical, and political agenda comes from these phenomenological descriptions of writers who represent a wide range of backgrounds and experiences

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1. Families On the Brink, On the Edge by Lynne Hektor Dunphy

2. Isolating the Phenomenon of Family by Florence G. Sitelman and Robert Sitelman

3. Which Story Shall We Tell? by Maureen Duffy and Marilyn Leeds

4. How Family Scientists Study Families: Eight Theoretical Study Frameworks by Hilary A. Rose

5. A Psychologist Reflects On the Family by Dennis R. Finger

6. The Politics of the Family by Susan L. Folden

7. Preparing Modern Practitioners for Postmodern Families by Sherry Hartman

8. Food and My Family by Joan DiPasquale Davis

9. The Wedding: The Triumph of Hope Over Experience by Lynn Hektor Dunphy

10. A Single Woman Adopts Catherine by Claudia Hauri

11. Through the Eyes of Catherine at 7 by Catherine Hauri

12. Reflections on Becoming and Being a Mother by Sarah Selen Steen Lauterbach

13. Becoming a Man in a Gay Family: Dialogue and Reflections by Edward M. Freeman

14. A Normal Family: From the Perspective of a 21-year-old Man by Daniel Collins

15. The Future of the Family: From the Perspective of a 21-year-old Woman by Christine Fitzsimons

16. Infertility: A Neon Light by Linda Gonzalez

17. The Quest for an Alternative Family: Confessions of a Child-Free Lesbian by Gabnella Rosetti

18. Dedicated to My Tommy: Give Sorrow Words by Katherine Parry

19. The Holocaust Revisited: Protecting Our Families by Ellen Goldschmidt Ehrlich

20. The Impact of AIDS on the Family by Sande Garcia Jones and Patricia Messmer

21. Shadow Families by Carolyn L. Brown and Patricia M. Siccardi

22. A Family in Divorce, As Told by Sheila by Sheila J. Hopkins

23. Housing for the Single-Parent Family: A Blueprint for Women's Educational Support by Judith Mathews, Maureen Hreha, and Marilyn Burk

24. Domestic Violence: A Loss of Selfhood by Evelyn Ortner

25. Through the Distance: Living as an Object of Anger by Julie M. Evertz

26. Cancer of Violence: Power Differentials and Family Values by Patricia L. Munhall

27. The American Way Through Hazel Eyes: A Look at the Caribbean Black Family by Sandra E. Gibson

28. The Aging Society: Fulcrum for the New Century by Virginia Macken Fitzsimons

29. www.sex.family by Shelley Green

30. From Snow White to Esmerelda: A Mother-Daughter Conversation in Three Generations by Anne Hearon Rambo, Shelby Hearon, and Rachel Shelby Rambo


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Patricia L. Munhall, EdD, ARNP, NCPsyA, FAAN-International Institute for Human Understanding

Patricia Munhall, EdD, ARNP, NCPsyA, CNLP, FAAN, has been a Professor of Nursing for thirty years at various universities, including Hunter College, CUNY, and Teachers College, Columbia University. She also has been a psychoanalyst for 16 years.  She has a Doctorate in Nursing from Columia University and graduated from The Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis as a Psychoanalyst.

She is an international speaker on phenomenology as a research method and an approach to practice, an author or editor of eleven books, including phenomenologies, and over 60 manuscripts focusing on qualitative research, research studies, unknowing, phenomenology, and philosophical analysis.  Patricia is founder and president of the International Institute for Human Understanding, which sponsors qualitative research conferences, workshops and consultations and is located presently in Miami.

Patricia currently is writing, teaching, consulting, doing research and in clinical practice in Miami, Florida.

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Virginia M. Fitzsimons-Kean University of New Jersey, Union, New Jersey

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