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Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion 1st ed. 2018


Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion 1st ed. 2018

Hardback by Crane, Jennifer

Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion

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ISBN:
9783319947174
Publication Date:
11 Oct 2018
Edition/language:
1st ed. 2018 / English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing AG
Pages:
215 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion

Description

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England. Activism by these groups, often manifested in small voluntary organisations, drew upon and constructed an expertise grounded in experience and emotion that supported, challenged, and subverted medical, social work, legal, and political authority. New forms of experiential and emotional expertise were manifested in politics - through consultation, voting, and lobbying - but also in the reshaping of everyday life, and in new partnerships formed between voluntary spokespeople and media. While becoming subjects of, and agents in, child protection politics over the late twentieth century, children, parents, and survivors also faced barriers to enacting change, and the book traces how long-standing structural hierarchies, particularly around gender andage, mediated and inhibited the realisation of experiential and emotional expertise.

Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The Battered Child Syndrome: Parents and Children as Medical Objects.- 3. Establishing Child Voice in Public.- 4. Inculcating Child Expertise in Schools and Homes.- 5. Collective Action by Parents and Complicating Family Life.- 6. Mothers, Media, and Individualism in Policy.- 7. The Visibility of Survivors and Expertise as Experience.- 8. Conclusion.- Index.

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