What's Mother Got to do with it? : : Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse / / Julia Krane.

A child's disclosure of sexual abuse can wreak havoc in many lives, especially that of the child's mother. Julia Krane offers a first-hand look into everyday protection practices of child welfare from the perspective of mothers of sexually abused children and their female social workers, c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2003
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Women and the Welfare State
  • 3. Family Ties: Child Welfare and the Protection of Children from Sexual Abuse
  • 4. Understanding Child Sexual Abuse: Highlighting the Inadequacies of Women
  • 5. Shifting the Focus in Practice: Women's Deficiencies as Wives and Mothers
  • 6. Transforming Women into Mother Protectors: The Investigation and Its Aftermath
  • 7. Enforcing, Reinforcing, and Maintaining Mother Protector
  • 8. Critical Reflections: Workers' and Mothers7 Thoughts on Mother Protector
  • 9. Protection as Gendered and En/Gender ing: Implications for Theory, Practice, and Research
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index