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An insight into some of the central debates and questions about gender and the family, examined through the lens of moral panic.

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Introduction - Viviene E. Cree; 1. Women and children first. Contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the state - Morena Tartari; 2. Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale - Dawn Mannay; 3. Making a moral panic - ‘Feral families’, family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand: Doing the work of the state? - Liz Beddoe; 4. The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting - Sally Brown; 5. Amoral panic: The fall of the autonomous family and the rise of ‘early intervention’ - Stuart Waiton; Afterword Maggie Mellon

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      Publisher: Bristol University Press
      Publication Date: 30/06/2015
      ISBN13: 9781447321910, 978-1447321910
      ISBN10: 144732191X
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      Gender studies, gender groups Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An insight into some of the central debates and questions about gender and the family, examined through the lens of moral panic.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - Viviene E. Cree; 1. Women and children first. Contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the state - Morena Tartari; 2. Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale - Dawn Mannay; 3. Making a moral panic - ‘Feral families’, family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand: Doing the work of the state? - Liz Beddoe; 4. The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting - Sally Brown; 5. Amoral panic: The fall of the autonomous family and the rise of ‘early intervention’ - Stuart Waiton; Afterword Maggie Mellon

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