In this timely and eloquent book, Diana Gittins draws on a fascinating range of sources-psychoanalytic, historical, social, literary, artistic and personal-to unpack our common assumptions about 'the child' and 'childhood' and explore the meanings and values that are commonly attributed to them. She argues that while there continue to exist substantial differences and inequalities that effect real children in material, and often harmful, ways, 'the child' also acts as an important cultural construct at both a symbolic and psychological level. It is in the blurring and overlapping of adults' multiple and diverse notions of what 'the child' is and should be that confusions and contradictions arise. These can be perceived underlying the moral panics that regularly recur about adults' abuse of children and children's acts of violence. Wide-ranging and provocative, this is a book for everyone interested in children and their place in our society. It will appeal to students and professionals alike across a wide range of courses and disciplines, as well as to the general reader.

The Child in Question

Gittins, Diana

Teen & Young Adult

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The family in question: Changing households and familiar ideologies (Women in society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Macmillan

Drawing on personal, historical, sociological, psychoanalytic, literary and artistic sources, this compelling book explores the tensions and contradictions implicit in notions of children and childhood. It examines how children can at once represent innocence, beauty and hope, while at the same time are neglected, disenfranchised and abused. Wide-ranging and provocative, this exploration of what 'the child' means, and has meant, to adults, will appeal to students and professionals across many disciplines, as well as to the interested general reader.

Red Globe Press

Drawing on personal, historical, sociological, psychoanalytic, literary and artistic sources, this compelling book explores the tensions and contradictions implicit in notions of children and childhood. It examines how children can at once represent innocence, beauty and hope, while at the same time are neglected, disenfranchised and abused. Wide-ranging and provocative, this exploration of what 'the child' means, and has meant, to adults, will appeal to students and professionals across many disciplines, as well as to the interested general reader.

After a decade of Thatcherism, rising illegitimacy and the moral panic over child sexual abuse, the family is more of a political issue than ever. But is it 'the family' that is in crisis, or family ideology? In this revised edition of an important and controversial book, Diana Gittins adds to a broad range of historical, anthropological and feminist evidence, a new chapter on child sexual abuse.

The Family in Question: Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies (Women in Society, 8)

Parenting & Relationships

The Family in Question: Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies (Women in Society)

Literature & Fiction

After a decade of Thatcherism, rising illegitimacy and the moral panic over child sexual abuse, the family is more of a political issue than ever. But is it 'the family' that is in crisis, or family ideology? In this revised edition of an important and controversial book, Diana Gittins adds to a broad range of historical, anthropological and feminist evidence, a new chapter on child sexual abuse.

The family in question: Changing households and familiar ideologies

Humanities Press International

This fascinating study presents a unique history of psychiatry in the twentieth century. It brings together the memories and narratives of over sixty patients and workers who lived, or were employed, in Severalls Psychiatric Hospital, Essex, UK. Personal accounts are contextualised both in relation to wider developments and issues in twentieth-century mental health, and in relation to policies and changes in the hospital itself. Organised around the theme of space and place, and drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative material, chapters deal with key areas such as gender divisions, power relations, patterns of admission and discharge, treatments, and the daily lives and routines of patients and nurses of both sexes.

Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997 (Memory and Narrative)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

This book provides an unusual and accessible account of trends and changes in the history of psychiatry during the 20th century, while offering a lively narrative of the daily lives of those who worked and lived in a typical psychiatric hospital

Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997 (Memory & Narrative)

Psychology & Counseling

Madness in Its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997

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The Child in Question

The family in question: Changing households and familiar ideologies (Women in society)

The Child in Question

The Child in Question

The Family in Question: Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies (Women in Society, 8)

The Family in Question: Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies (Women in Society)

The family in question: Changing households and familiar ideologies

Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997 (Memory and Narrative)

Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997 (Memory & Narrative)

Madness in Its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997