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Tables of Contents for Gender and Child Protection
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction
1
10
Social work and the scrutiny of mothering
3
2
My starting point
5
4
The book's structure
9
2
Child protection, gender and social work
11
25
The family and social control
11
2
Child protection policy and practice
13
6
Gender and other inequalities in child protection
19
6
What is meant by `gender'?
25
5
Social constructionism
30
1
Occupational culture
31
4
Conclusion
35
1
Who are the clients?
36
24
Families, children or parents?
37
9
Social class and community
46
6
Social control
52
6
Conclusion
58
2
Working with women
60
25
Women as mothers, women as social workers
61
1
The reality of women clients' lives
62
9
Women's responsibility for protection
71
6
Empathy
77
5
Conclusion
82
1
Implications for practice
83
2
Working with men
85
23
The `problem of men'
85
3
Discourses of masculinity in the social work office
88
16
Conclusion
104
2
Implications for practice
106
2
Child protection priorities
108
22
The rediscovery of child neglect
109
1
What is neglect?
110
2
The physical care of children
112
5
Other factors
117
3
Body maintenance work and the scrutiny of mothering
120
3
Why dirty, hungry children and untidy houses?
123
5
Conclusion
128
1
Implications for practice
128
2
Knowledge and values in practice
130
16
Inherent tensions in social work knowledge and values
131
11
Discussion
142
2
Conclusion
144
2
Understanding gendered practice
146
17
Structure and discourse
146
6
Gendered identities in a gendered organisation
152
3
Regulation of the body
155
4
Gender, class and crime
159
3
Conclusion
162
1
Conclusion
163
20
Summary of research findings
163
2
The current state of child protection work
165
7
Messages for practice
172
11
References
183
15
Index
198