Families; Critical Theory of the Family:
McGovern, Thomas V.
In the act of writing her journal, they will exist in natural time with the Carolina Maclaren finds a meager source seasons, counter to the beat of the met- of strength which...
...COMMONWEAL, 232 sociologist who researches patterns of has written a very personal book about Madison Ave., NYC 10016...
...Vulnerable neither to sentiment "a magnificent book which with all its tion in the comnor optimism, Caroline awaits the con- imperfections is one of the few (English] munity fRevelatory" .-Publishers stant companionship of Anna...
...tion of Ellen Barrett, known to the bishop CORPUS-National Association Re- Although these two books about as homosexual in "orientation," and signed/Married Priests...
...Focusing on two distinctly different confines of man-measured time to live join hers to serve the useful soil...
...by Paul nance of the "nuclear family" dictates Moore, Jr., Harper & Row, $8.95, 256 RATES: 70c a word, one time...
...Box 2649, families are strikingly different, both then to newspaper and magazine readers Chicago, 60690...
...and in secular life: the ordination of Poster advocates more agnosticism in our women, and of homosexuals...
...Experience in law enforcement and some experience in cor- scription of daily life as a primary source gratitude from Christian homosexuals, rections...
...And example, Howard sees fit to tell them of a the family and models of family struc- please pass the salt...
...Almost all of together...
...She discovers that it not alone...
...Classified payable with order...
...While we have book is Poster's criticism of the seen a number of examples of this style of bourgeois model of family structure which most theorists have accepted with In brief little question...
...ABIT Jane Howard Si.nwn and Schuster, $9.95, 282 pp...
...As I LISTEN to the students in my clas- How important to a family are ritual, ses on mental health and personal myth and religion...
...10019...
...gently about the merits of studying the interweaves his personal experiences aspects of three other types of family with two particular constellations of Divorced Catholics structure, the aristocratic, the peasant, events...
...A To paraphrase Virginia Woolf's ing and a Franciscan nursing congregation, she traveled very old woman, Caroline anticipates an evaluation of George Eliot's throughout England to visit existence set on juxtaposition to the Middlemarch, Chamber Music is, in the their various houses and was granted measured minutes of her experiental best sense of the word, a very adult book: limited participaworld...
...Standard hate Criminal Justice desires teaching position prosper from them...
...prehensive framework and hints at a concern for the particular women from methodology for the beginning of a new his diocese...
...Our human tolerance for viduals to one another...
...Seabury, $14.95,.233 pp...
...achieves that description often and with has been learning a great deal about 35226...
...Others felt happier for the sta- takes work to accomplish connectedness.bility of their parents' relationships...
...At these moments, the reader can ferred the clarity of Studs Terkel's ap- from these two books would indicate feel the affection which connects indi- proach in Working and Hard Times, He they are not...
...psychology over the years...
...F A Dept...
...For the psychologist/ psychiatrist engaged in the Classified psychotherapy of families, the mainte- TAKE A BISHOP LIKE ME...
...Howard and the bishop's comments show that he Stoltz, 1142 Alford Ave., Birmingham, Al...
...Bishop Commonweal: 382...
...change and dysfunction in family struc- his involvement in two controversies that ture, the norm for comparison remains have their counterparts in all the churches Biblical Institute the middle class "nuclear family...
...While she criticizes the the analysis of family a critical perspec- at bay if we give more thought to our academics for their jargon, she clutters tive...
...What stereotypes about families ought to Thomas V. McGovern be abolished...
...F.A reported in Vaillant's recent research, Howard's book pulses and thrives when 300 Noah Zee0 Road 18 Bedlord R0* Ann A,bo, MI 48106 London, WC1R 4EJ Adaptation to Life, that mid-life mental she lets the people she meets describe VSA Engand health was most highly correlated with their chiefs, their hospitality, their com22 June 1979: 381 munications network, their experiences writing in recent years, most notably Gail Are families dying...
...vitality...
...After reviewing the concepts of tribes and our clans and our several kinds her interviews with scholarly namedrop- family articulated by Freud, Marx, Par- of families...
...Howard over half the class nervously acknowl- has conversations with members of a edged that reality...
...Paul Moore's FISCHER, DALEY, STENDAHL...
...monthly in advance for more of successful outcome...
...Bishop Situation Wanted connect with one another...
...Having spent her life in service to carcasses would enrich the roots...
...The best data Moore's story of the mounting furor, on which to judge what families really which includes a number of letters and YOUNG WOMAN with Bachelor's degree are come from the reports of the people articles on the subject, is the most inin Social Welfare and Master's degree in who live in them, yearn for them, and teresting part of the book...
...So I temporary ecclesiology and thinks only of being set free from the wait for the time when my remains will the role of women...
...Write: Director...
...The so well...
...Her book who have divorced or separated parents, is best when she does just that...
...To what exhave serious doubts about the future of tent do adversity and guilt hold families the "nuclear family...
...sense of place, propadjustment, I hear strong voices and feel- erty, history and purpose...
...There were signs of relief...
...In the midst of an interaction be- sons, Erickson, and the communication urgent, nor any achievement more tween two lesbians who are struggling theory/family therapy school, Poster de- worthy of a psalm...
...I understand why they Greek clan in Massachusetts, some Virwere realistically pessimistic about their ginia country kin, an evangelist-patriarch prospects...
...The experience pro- protecting our trees from insects, her asvides her with her only knowledge of felt surance that their brittle little skewered "A significant time...
...First he tells of the unauthorized REMARRIAGE AND EUCHARIST and the proletarian/working class fam- ordination of nine women by three of his Lecture-discussion dates now available ily...
...ing, however, is clearly being tested...
...In her book, by SUZANNE Families, Jane Howard shares her con- CAMPS IONES CRITICAL THEORY OF THE FAMILY versations with a variety of folks about Mark Poster this topic...
...French historian's speech on polarity, vi- ture...
...In the act of writing her journal, they will exist in natural time with the Carolina Maclaren finds a meager source seasons, counter to the beat of the metof strength which helps her to face the ronome: "- - .. I remember her way of last days of her life...
...ing conflict which ground him unmerciChurch, 457 West 51st Street, New York, Poster does, however, provide a com- fully between canon law and his personal N.Y...
...As a historian, he writes co- personality emerges unmistakably, as he registration necessary...
...As a social historian, he brings to thoughts...
...Contact Msgr...
...AStudyodVlbrkir,g Nuns Are families in trouble...
...I still contribution the tyranny of Robert's schedule and the cannot believe in a higher purpose or a to the understanding of congrinding routine of nursing him, she kindly Providence that will unite us...
...63c, six times...
...Together, novels written for grown-up people...
...FAMILIES the presence of stable, intimate marital relationships...
...What is most provocative about this tality and third genders...
...appeal, but as a researcher, I would find which took him unaware, and the ensuStephen J. Kelleher, Sacred Heart the task overwhelming in proportion...
...Send applications to: Cathy of what defines the family...
...Such an argument is refreshing in its fellow-bishops in Philadelphia in 1974, for Fall 1979-Spring 1980...
...Deal...
...Second he tells of his ordinaMarried Priests look at family...
...So hosanna in excelfor the custody and welfare of a child, for scribes the elements of a critical theory of sis, and blest be the tie that binds...
...times...
...No aim seems to me more pings...
...Her questions were simple...
...For the The Episcopalian Bishop of New York than three times...
...Pre- structure...
...Her interviews with single parmore we talked, however, the more relief ents, with commune members, and with was transformed into uncertainty...
...groups, an Augustinian teachwith Anna in their own unique rhythm...
...In a recent class sought to let the people who are in when I asked for a show of hands of those families speak for themselves...
...share an important insight about how we as a "practicing" homosexual...
...Maybe the hawk can be kept tracting...
...Many of them ers, networks of outsiders...
...These a lesbian couple highlight the gropings students had taken seriously the finding for new forms of family experience...
...lets the interviewees tell their stories change, for ambiguity, and for flounderAll too often, though, Howard's mus- without making obstrusive comments...
...I ings about critical issues, her armchair Mark Poster's book, Critical Theory cannot agree more with Jane Howard analyses about this "best of times" and of the Family, is unadulterated scholar- who concludes her book with these "worst of times" for families, are dis- ship...
...Can friendship replace kinship...
...Poster asks for a de- letters starkly confront expressions of with Catholic college...
...Is blood still thicker than water...
...it Weekly LC )8-20410 ISBN 0-39450665.9 510 Is the family in grave trouble...
...of eighteen children, and an affluent New Some felt better knowing that they were York City family...
...elders, foundings about their families...
...The evidence als...
...It is clearly TRINITY COLLEGE, Burlington, Vermont 05401, June 17-22, MEIER, NEWMAN, current beliefs about family patterns and and engagingly written...
...these persons yearn for the stability, the After attending one too many certainty, and the emotional support and academic conferences on the past, preintimacy which a traditional family is sent and future of families, Howard supposed to provide...
...66c, three both treatment method and the definition Pp...
...We are reminded of tragedy and prosperity, and their ritu- Sheehy's Passages, I've always pre- too often of the casualties...
Vol. 106 • June 1979 • No. 12
