Writing the Family : Women, Auto-Ethnography, and Family Work /

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"This is not a traditional book about the family. In a very essential way, it is a book about being a woman in relation to the current form of the family under capitalism in North America. The authors are three women whose interest in the family stems out of their own unique and varied experien...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Skott-Myhre, Kathleen
Other Authors: Weima, Korinne, Gibbs, Helen, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, ©2012.
Series:Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 80.
Subjects:
Families > Research.
Feminist anthropology.
Anthropologists' writings.
Familles > Recherche.
Féminisme et anthropologie.
Écrits d'anthropologues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Education.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. My Two Families
  • We All Have Two Families
  • The Ideal Family
  • A Tracing Internalized
  • R.D. Laing
  • The Internalized Family
  • Psychologization of The (Nuclear/Ideal) Family
  • Putting The Family Back On The Map
  • Part II. Learning My Mother's Magic
  • Background
  • A Personal Journey
  • The Journey Continued--Toward A Just and Equitable Practice
  • A Vision of Difference
  • A Genogram of Flight
  • Part III. Foucault and Power in Child Protection
  • Burnt Out
  • Authority and Power
  • History of The Family, Youth and Child Protection
  • Theoretical Underpinnings
  • Foucault and Governmentality
  • Auto-Ethnography
  • Filling the Gap
  • Power and The Child Protection Worker
  • Never Without Power.

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