Inside Relationships

<p>The second edition of this book again uses original case studies as a means to bring home to students, through lived experiences, the theories and concepts of interpersonal communication.</p><p>Each piece takes an arts-based approach—spanning essays, short stories, scripts, photographs, poetry— and has been newly written for this edition by communication researchers, writers, and artists. The case studies focus on the aesthetic dimensions of relating to illustrate to students the workings of relationship management with regards to friendship, race, class, gender, family interaction, sexuality, and other key topics in relational communication. The case studies are framed from a critical interpersonal perspective to encourage students to consider how power and cultural discourses about relationships influence their relating. Faulkner’s introduction to each section provides important pedagogical content to give context and meaning to the cases that follow. Each case closes with questions for discussion, activities, and additional resources to help students analyze the material.</p><p>The book is suited as core or supplemental reading for courses in interpersonal or relational communication.</p> <p>Foreword: A Critical Need for Critical Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication Pedagogy by Jimmie Manning</p><p>Introduction by Sandra L. Faulkner<br><br><strong>Chapter 1: What is a Relationship? </strong></p><p>Case 1: <em>The ruminating of the Samoan </em>Va<em> (relationships in-between) & the musing and connecting of identity</em> by Fetaui Iosefo</p><p>Case 2: <i>Migration Patterns</i> by Kimberly Dark </p><p>Case 3: <i>Wellspring</i> by Sheila Squillante</p><p>Case 4: <i>Death and the Childhood Imagination</i> by Alana Ritt<br><br><strong>Chapter 2: Health, Discourse, Dialectics, and Disclosure</strong></p><p>Case 5: <i>Run for their Lives: A Call to Action to Address Black Infant and Maternal Mortality</i> by Erin K. Willer</p><p>Case 6: <i>Primary Care</i> by Mary E. Weems</p><p>Case 7: <i>Letter to My 14-Year-Old Self </i>by Walid Afifi, Rana M. Shubair, and Salsabeel Hamdan</p><p>Case 8: <i>Cancer Triptych</i> by Sandra L. Faulkner<br><br><strong>Chapter 3: Families, Parenting, and Communication </strong></p><p>Case 9: <i>Life Isn’t All Roses: The Struggles of Adoptive Parenting</i> by Christy Mesaros-Winckles and Andrew Winckles</p><p>Case 10: <i>Formative Interactions and Reformative Patterns in Father-son Relationships and Masculinities</i> by Dan S. Strasser</p><p>Case 11: <i>A Capitalist and a Christian</i> by Laura Stafford</p><p>Case 12: <i>Healthy Happy Homes</i> by Lindsey J. Thomas and Kristina M. Scharp <br><br><strong>Chapter 4: The Social Self: Class, Race, and Social Context</strong></p><p>Case 13: <i>Black Motherhood: Poems</i> by Nicole Danielle Morris</p><p>Case 14: <i>Class and Calamity: In Hindsight</i> by Kate Magsamen-Conrad</p><p>Case 15: <i>Class (Inter)Acting</i> by Tasha R. Dunn</p><p>Case 16: <i>You Talk Like A White Girl: Blackgirl Identity and Interpersonal Interracial Realities </i>by Robin M. Boylorn<br><br><strong>Chapter 5: Race, Nationality, and Gendered Practices in Relationships </strong></p><p>Case 17: <i>Tales of Dashing Sasquatch: Skirting Gender Hegemony</i> by Manda V. Hicks</p><p>Case 18: <i>Sticks and Stones: Dealing with Discrimination </i>by Lisa K. Hanasono</p><p>Case 19: <i>How a board game prompted a conversation with my kids about what it means to be ‘American’</i> by Jenn McKee</p><p>Case 20:<i> Stories of migration and identity from an undocumented citizen in the United States </i>by Monica Cornejo<br><br><strong>Chapter 6: Relationship Maintenance</strong></p><p>Case 21: <i>Long-Term Love</i> by Laura L. Ellingson</p><p>Case 22: <i>College students’ negotiations of work-life balance: Grasping it all in moments of turbulence</i> by Katherine J. Denker and Kendra Knight</p><p>Case 23: <i>Dis/connection</i> by Zhenyu Tian and Keith Berry</p><p>Case 24: <i>TEN: Marriage in 10 Scenes</i> by Sandra L. Faulkner<br><br><strong>Chapter 7: Sexualities and Heteropatriarchy</strong></p><p>Case 25: <i>Feminist Killjoy, Childfree by Choice</i> by Bernadette Marie Calafell</p><p>Case 26: <i>Does my beard make me look straight?—a series of messy strands</i> by Lore/tta LeMaster </p><p>Case 27: <i>The Trials of Coming Out as Trans</i> by Shalen Lowell</p><p>Case 28: <i>Learning, Living, and Leaving Monogamy</i> by Tony E. Adams and Dominic A. Walker-Pecoraro<br><br><strong>Chapter 8 The Dark Side</strong></p><p>Case 29: <i>Bowing Out of Friendship</i> by Julia Galbus Kiesel</p><p>Case 30: <i>That Baby Will Cost You: An Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy</i> by Sandra L. Faulkner</p><p>Case 31: <i>The Four Ugliest Children</i> by Camille-Yvette Welsch</p><p>Case 32: <i>Twintimacy and Twinships</i> by Jordan A. Allen and Nicole T. Allen<br><br>Index </p><p>About the Authors </p>