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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Swift, Karen
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 1995.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 1. Home Alone
  • 2. A Critical Approach to Child Neglect
  • 3. The Social Context of Neglect
  • 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
  • 8. 'Good Parents': The Current Approach to Neglect
  • 9. Transformations.