Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England.  Activism by these groups, often manifested in small voluntary organisations, drew upon and constructed an expertise grounded in experience and emotion that supported, challenged, and subverted medical, social work, legal, and political authority.  New forms of experiential and emotional expertise were manifested in politics – through consultation, voting, and lobbying – but also in the reshaping of everyday life, and in new partnerships formed between voluntary spokespeople and media.  While becoming subjects of, and agents in, child protection politics over the late twentieth century, children, parents, and survivors also faced barriers to enacting change, and the book traces how long-standing structural hierarchies, particularly around gender andage, mediated and inhibited the realisation of experiential and emotional expertise.
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Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England.  Activism by these groups, often manifested in small voluntary organisations, drew upon and constructed an expertise grounded in experience and emotion that supported, challenged, and subverted medical, social work, legal, and political authority.  New forms of experiential and emotional expertise were manifested in politics – through consultation, voting, and lobbying – but also in the reshaping of everyday life, and in new partnerships formed between voluntary spokespeople and media.  While becoming subjects of, and agents in, child protection politics over the late twentieth century, children, parents, and survivors also faced barriers to enacting change, and the book traces how long-standing structural hierarchies, particularly around gender andage, mediated and inhibited the realisation of experiential and emotional expertise.
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Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion

Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion

by Jennifer Crane
Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion

Child Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion

by Jennifer Crane

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England.  Activism by these groups, often manifested in small voluntary organisations, drew upon and constructed an expertise grounded in experience and emotion that supported, challenged, and subverted medical, social work, legal, and political authority.  New forms of experiential and emotional expertise were manifested in politics – through consultation, voting, and lobbying – but also in the reshaping of everyday life, and in new partnerships formed between voluntary spokespeople and media.  While becoming subjects of, and agents in, child protection politics over the late twentieth century, children, parents, and survivors also faced barriers to enacting change, and the book traces how long-standing structural hierarchies, particularly around gender andage, mediated and inhibited the realisation of experiential and emotional expertise.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319947181
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 09/25/2018
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 549 KB

About the Author

Jennifer Crane is a Public Engagement Research Fellow on the Wellcome Trust-funded project, ‘The Cultural History of the NHS’, at the University of Warwick, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The Battered Child Syndrome: Parents and Children as Medical Objects.- 3. Establishing Child Voice in Public.- 4. Inculcating Child Expertise in Schools and Homes.-  5. Collective Action by Parents and Complicating Family Life.-  6. Mothers, Media, and Individualism in Policy.- 7. The Visibility of Survivors and Expertise as Experience.- 8. Conclusion.- Index.
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