Gender and Family

ISBN-13: 9781447321910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 90 str.

Opis

This slim volume offers readers insight into some of the central debates and questions about gender and the family, examined through the lens of moral panic. Beginning with an overview of the role of moral panic in these debates and an appraisal of the work of Stanley Cohen, one of the chief architects of moral panic ideas, "Gender and Family" then draws on research and practice examples from around the world to explore interconnections between gender, class, race, and age. In this context, it investigates how the state and social work intervene in family life.

Spis treści

Introduction - Viviene E. Cree; 1. Women and children first. Contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the state - Morena Tartari; 2. Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale - Dawn Mannay; 3. Making a moral panic - ‘Feral families’, family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand: Doing the work of the state? - Liz Beddoe; 4. The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting - Sally Brown; 5. Amoral panic: The fall of the autonomous family and the rise of ‘early intervention’ - Stuart Waiton; Afterword Maggie Mellon