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Author Skott-Myhre, Kathleen.

Title Writing the Family : Women, Auto-Ethnography, and Family Work / Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs.

Publication Info. Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Transgressions ; v. 80
Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 80.
Contents Part I. My Two Families -- We All Have Two Families -- Ideal Family -- A Tracing Internalized -- R.D. Laing -- Internalized Family -- Psychologization of The (Nuclear/Ideal) Family -- Putting The Family Back On The Map -- Part II. Learning My Mother's Magic -- Background -- A Personal Journey -- Journey Continued--Toward A Just and Equitable Practice -- A Vision of Difference -- A Genogram of Flight -- Part III. Foucault and Power in Child Protection -- Burnt Out -- Authority and Power -- History of The Family, Youth and Child Protection -- Theoretical Underpinnings -- Foucault and Governmentality -- Auto-Ethnography -- Filling the Gap -- Power and The Child Protection Worker -- Never Without Power.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "This is not a traditional book about the family. In a very essential way, it is a book about being a woman in relation to the current form of the family under capitalism in North America. The authors are three women whose interest in the family stems out of their own unique and varied experiences. The text is comprised of three autoethnographies that look at the family from radically distinct perspectives. Each section is rooted in the author's own personal and professional life experience. The book explores multi-cultural family therapy, living inside a divorcing family, the role of child protective services, issues of class and race in a family's identity, how media and pop psychology shape our view of the family, and what it is to be female in a patriarchal family system. All three women are currently working with young people in various capacities. Each section offers new ways to work together with young people to reshape the family so that it better serves those who live within it."--Publisher's website.
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Subject Families -- Research.
Families -- Research.
Feminist anthropology.
Feminist anthropology.
Anthropologists' writings.
Anthropologists' writings.
Indexed Term Education.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Weima, Korinne.
Gibbs, Helen, 1974-
ISBN 9789460917493 (electronic book)
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