Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers' : : A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect /

Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers' : : A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect / / Karen Swift.

Child neglect has been characterized over the past century as a problem of deficient care of children by mothers. A complex and punitive child welfare system has emerged, based on a view that the children of these mothers require legally sanctioned rescue by those better suited to care for them. Kar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Swift, Karen,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©1995
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (218 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART 1. CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE
  • 1. Home Alone
  • 2. A Critical Approach to Child Neglect
  • 3. The Social Context of Neglect
  • PART 2. CHILD WELFARE WORK PROCESSES
  • 4. Chronic Dirt and Disorder: Producing a Case of Child Neglect
  • 5. Personality or Poverty? - Contradictory Views of Neglect
  • 6. Neglect as Failed Motherhood
  • 7. The Colour of Neglect
  • PART 3. THE RESPONSE SYSTEM
  • 8. 'Good Parents': The Current Approach to Neglect
  • 9. Transformations
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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