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Writing the Family

Women, Auto-Ethnography, and Family work

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Kathleen Skott-Myhre
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  2. Korinne Weima
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  3. Helen Gibbs
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Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS, volume 80)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. My Two Families

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. We All Have Two Families

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 3-11

    3. The Ideal Family

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 13-36

    4. R.D. Laing

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 37-52

    5. Psychologization of The (Nuclear/Ideal) Family

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 53-79

    6. Putting The Family Back On The Map

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 81-120

  3. Learning My Mother’s Magic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Background

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 127-157

    3. The Journey Continued—Toward A Just and Equitable Practice

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 159-196

    4. A Vision of Difference

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 197-206

  4. Foucault and Power in Child Protection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Burnt Out

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 209-211

    3. Authority and Power

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 213-215

    4. History of The Family, Youth and Child Protection

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 217-237

    5. Theoretical Underpinnings

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 239-243

    6. Auto-Ethnography

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 245-250

    7. Power and The Child Protection Worker

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 251-273

    8. Never Without Power

      • Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs
      Pages 275-279

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 281-292
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Writing the Family

  • Book Subtitle: Women, Auto-Ethnography, and Family work

  • Editors: Kathleen Skott-Myhre, Korinne Weima, Helen Gibbs

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-749-3

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-749-3Published: 30 July 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 292

  • Topics: Education, general

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