Conference announcement and call for papers:
Gender and child welfare - an interdisciplinary conference
University of York,
Wednesday 19th September 2007
How is gender being integrated into the child welfare agenda today? As
services in the UK reorganise to reflect higher aspirations for children's
well-being, they also have new obligations to eliminate discrimination and
promote gender equality (under the Equality Act 2006) which apply to
children, parents and practitioners. How can children's views and
experiences inform such developments? What new challenges in parenting
that women and men face in the context of family and societal change and
diversity do policy makers and practitioners need to be aware of? How does
gender intersect with ethnicity, religion, class, disability, age and
sexuality in families? How are other policies such as youth justice
promoting or undermining child welfare goals? What theoretical and
practice developments are most promising in promoting both child well-being
and gender equity?
This exciting one-day conference is the second organised by the Gender and
Child Welfare Network, an international group of researchers and
practitioners.
Abstracts are invited for papers and workshops relevant to the questions
above, to be submitted by Friday 18th May 2007, to Carol-Ann Hooper on
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Further information available shortly on www.york.ac.uk/spsw
Plenary speakers include:
Linda Davies, Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, McGill
University, Montreal. Editor with Peter Leonard of Social Work in a
Corporate Era: Practices of Power and Resistance, Ashgate, 2004 and with
particular interests in research on mothering and child welfare
Harry Ferguson, Professor of Social Work, University of West England.
Author of Protecting children in time: child abuse, child protection and the
consequences of modernity, Palgrave, 2004, with current interests in working
with men, masculinities and families
Wendy Hollway, Professor and co-Director of the Research Centre for
Citizenship, Identities and Governance, Open University. Author of The
Capacity to Care: Gender and Ethical Subjectivity, Routledge, 2006, with
particular interests in gender, capacity to care, parenting, and the
development of self in family and intimate relations
Virginia Morrow, Reader of Childhood Studies, Institute of Education,
University of London. Editor of Special Issue of Children and Society on
gender and ethnicity in children's lives (2006) - main interests in
sociology of childhood, children's rights and methods and ethics of social
research with children
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