Maternal Failure

Maternal Failure
Author: Barb Baltrinic
Publsiher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2018-10-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1726808807

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My mother made choices which would become the secrets she carried to her grave. I had been born illegitimately, put up for adoption, but at nine months old I was taken out of the process when my mother married the man who eventually adopted me. Despite her taking me back, she was never able to bond with me. It wasn

Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide

Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide
Author: Emma Milne
Publsiher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-08-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781839096228

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Milne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm', she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice's responses to suspected infanticide.

Failure to Protect

Failure to Protect
Author: Susan Strega,Julia Krane,Rosemary Carlton,Simon Lapierre,Cathy Richardson
Publsiher: Fernwood Books Limited
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2013
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1552665569

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Failure-to-protect policies and practices are intended to better ensure the safety and protection of children. But as this book demonstrates, these policies actually increase danger for children and for their mothers. While failure to protect is not always encoded in policy documents, practices that engage mothers and hold them responsible for violence in the home, while excusing or ignoring the male offender, are common. Moreover, these actions most often play out on the shoulders of marginalized and already oppressed women and, in a cruel twist, place blame on mothers because they are unable to protect their children from factors beyond their control, such as poverty, racism, intimate partner violence and inadequate housing. In this book, writers from Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia explain how the concept of failure to protect emerged and how it differentially impacts child welfare clients by virtue of their gender, race and class positions. Chapters dedicated to child sexual abuse and intimate partner abuse, for example, illustrate just how ineffective failure-to-protect policies are at protecting both women and children. Beyond a critique of child protection systems, the book proposes innovative and effective alternatives to policies and practices informed by failure to protect. This edited collection compels us to think critically about knowledge that is taken for granted and opens up possibilities for practices that are not only grounded in social justice but fulfill the mandate of child welfare to effectively protect children."

The Politics of Motherhood

The Politics of Motherhood
Author: Toni Bowers
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1996-07-13
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0521551749

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An examination of the eighteenth-century social and cultural struggle to develop new ideas for virtuous motherhood.

The Maternal Lineage

The Maternal Lineage
Author: Paola Mariotti
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2012
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780415681643

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The Maternal Lineage highlights various psychological aspects of the mothering experience. Clinical examples and theoretical research show that the transgenerational repetition of distressing mothering patterns can be successfully broken with professional help.

The Maternal Experience

The Maternal Experience
Author: Margo Lowy
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-11-29
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781000282450

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The Maternal Experience explores the powerful and dynamic nature of maternal ambivalence and disrupts the conventional narrative of the mother’s lived experience by arguing that encounters with feelings of hatred are both universal and have the capacity to stimulate and enrich her maternal love. The book draws on the author’s personal mothering experiences, those of other women, and examples from film to inspire new introspection about the everyday maternal experience. Lowy takes a psychosocial approach to weave thinking from selected psychoanalytic and contemporary accounts together with personal stories to explore how maternal ambivalence operates, and how mothering is sourced in psychic struggles between loving and hating feelings in an atmosphere that is rife with social and personal expectations and prohibitions. By reworking the experience of maternal ambivalence, the book secures an understanding of the mother’s feelings of hatred as a catalyst for her love and allows these maligned and taboo emotions to be named and reframed into acceptable and transformative feelings. Brought alive by examples from film and first-hand experience, this book is fascinating reading for academics and students of psychology, maternal and women’s studies, and sociology, as well as practitioners in the fields of psychology, social work, medicine and counselling.

Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women s Literature

Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women s Literature
Author: Geneva Cobb Moore
Publsiher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2017-03-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781611177497

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An in-depth examination of Black women's experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American history Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries. Moore traces black women writers' creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power in literature from the colonial-era work of Phillis Wheatley to the postmodern efforts of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Through their characters Moore shows how these writers re-created the identity of black women and challenge existing rules shaping their subordinate status and behavior. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and other social science theory, Moore examines the maternal iconography and counter-hegemonic narratives by which these writers responded to oppressive conventions of race, gender, and authority. Moore grounds her account in studies of Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. All these authors, she contends, wrote against invisibility and powerlessness by developing and cultivating a personal voice and an individual story of vulnerability, nurturing capacity, and agency that confounded prevailing notions of race and gender and called into question moral reform. In these nine writers' construction of feminine images—real and symbolic—Moore finds a shared sense of the historically significant role of black women in the liberation struggle during slavery, the Jim Crow period, and beyond. A foreword is offer by Andrew Billingsley, a pioneering sociologist and a leading scholar in African American studies.

The Collected Works of D W Winnicott

The Collected Works of D W  Winnicott
Author: Donald Woods Winnicott
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2017
Genre: Child psychiatry
ISBN: 9780190271336

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