Foreword: A Critical Need for Critical Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication Pedagogy by Jimmie Manning
Introduction by Sandra L. Faulkner
Chapter 1: What is a Relationship?
Case 1: The ruminating of the Samoan Va (relationships in-between) & the musing and connecting of identity by Fetaui Iosefo
Case 2: Migration Patterns by Kimberly Dark
Case 3: Wellspring by Sheila Squillante
Case 4: Death and the Childhood Imagination by Alana Ritt
Chapter 2: Health, Discourse, Dialectics, and Disclosure
Case 5: Run for their Lives: A Call to Action to Address Black Infant and Maternal Mortality by Erin K. Willer
Case 6: Primary Care by Mary E. Weems
Case 7: Letter to My 14-Year-Old Self by Walid Afifi, Rana M. Shubair, and Salsabeel Hamdan
Case 8: Cancer Triptych by Sandra L. Faulkner
Chapter 3: Families, Parenting, and Communication
Case 9: Life Isn't All Roses: The Struggles of Adoptive Parenting by Christy Mesaros-Winckles and Andrew Winckles
Case 10: Formative Interactions and Reformative Patterns in Father-son Relationships and Masculinities by Dan S. Strasser
Case 11: A Capitalist and a Christian by Laura Stafford
Case 12: Healthy Happy Homes by Lindsey J. Thomas and Kristina M. Scharp
Chapter 4: The Social Self: Class, Race, and Social Context
Case 13: Black Motherhood: Poems by Nicole Danielle Morris
Case 14: Class and Calamity: In Hindsight by Kate Magsamen-Conrad
Case 15: Class (Inter)Acting by Tasha R. Dunn
Case 16: You Talk Like A White Girl: Blackgirl Identity and Interpersonal Interracial Realities by Robin M. Boylorn
Chapter 5: Race, Nationality, and Gendered Practices in Relationships
Case 17: Tales of Dashing Sasquatch: Skirting Gender Hegemony by Manda V. Hicks
Case 18: Sticks and Stones: Dealing with Discrimination by Lisa K. Hanasono
Case 19: How a board game prompted a conversation with my kids about what it means to be 'American' by Jenn McKee
Case 20: Stories of migration and identity from an undocumented citizen in the United States by Monica Cornejo
Chapter 6: Relationship Maintenance
Case 21: Long-Term Love by Laura L. Ellingson
Case 22: College students' negotiations of work-life balance: Grasping it all in moments of turbulence by Katherine J. Denker and Kendra Knight
Case 23: Dis/connection by Zhenyu Tian and Keith Berry
Case 24: TEN: Marriage in 10 Scenes by Sandra L. Faulkner
Chapter 7: Sexualities and Heteropatriarchy
Case 25: Feminist Killjoy, Childfree by Choice by Bernadette Marie Calafell
Case 26: Does my beard make me look straight?-a series of messy strands by Lore/tta LeMaster
Case 27: The Trials of Coming Out as Trans by Shalen Lowell
Case 28: Learning, Living, and Leaving Monogamy by Tony E. Adams and Dominic A. Walker-Pecoraro
Chapter 8 The Dark Side
Case 29: Bowing Out of Friendship by Julia Galbus Kiesel
Case 30: That Baby Will Cost You: An Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy by Sandra L. Faulkner
Case 31: The Four Ugliest Children by Camille-Yvette Welsch
Case 32: Twintimacy and Twinships by Jordan A. Allen and Nicole T. Allen
Index
About the Authors