Familiar subjects? Domestic violence and child welfare
Featherstone, Brid
Familiar subjects? Domestic violence and child welfare Brid Featherstone and Liz Trinder - Wiley, 1997 - Child & Family Social Work .
Child and Family Social Work, 1997, 2: 147-159 Recommended reading
"Historically, domestic violence and child welfare have been seen as largely separate concerns. Over the last decade domestic violence has finally gained a place on social work agendas, partly as a result of linking domestic violence with child protection issues. Whilst welcoming the extent to which domestic violence is being taken seriously, we raise concerns about the dominant feminist perspectives guiding this project. We argue that current feminist theory is based on fixed and essentialist gender and generational categories which are unhelpful in understanding the complexities of family situations and family processes. Instead we argue for the relevance of relational understandings of gender, power and violence developed from feminist post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theorists. In doing so, we challenge accepted feminist understandings of domestic violence, and question the basis upon which dominant feminist approaches claim an unviolable alliance between the interests of women and children.” (Authors' abstract). Record #5317
CHILD ABUSE
RECOMMENDED READING
CHILD PROTECTION
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FEMINISM
GENDER
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
SOCIAL WORK
UNITED KINGDOM
Familiar subjects? Domestic violence and child welfare Brid Featherstone and Liz Trinder - Wiley, 1997 - Child & Family Social Work .
Child and Family Social Work, 1997, 2: 147-159 Recommended reading
"Historically, domestic violence and child welfare have been seen as largely separate concerns. Over the last decade domestic violence has finally gained a place on social work agendas, partly as a result of linking domestic violence with child protection issues. Whilst welcoming the extent to which domestic violence is being taken seriously, we raise concerns about the dominant feminist perspectives guiding this project. We argue that current feminist theory is based on fixed and essentialist gender and generational categories which are unhelpful in understanding the complexities of family situations and family processes. Instead we argue for the relevance of relational understandings of gender, power and violence developed from feminist post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theorists. In doing so, we challenge accepted feminist understandings of domestic violence, and question the basis upon which dominant feminist approaches claim an unviolable alliance between the interests of women and children.” (Authors' abstract). Record #5317
CHILD ABUSE
RECOMMENDED READING
CHILD PROTECTION
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FEMINISM
GENDER
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
SOCIAL WORK
UNITED KINGDOM