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Care, Protection and Reform
This is a study of the Dunedin Branch of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children established in 1899, and covers the period 1899 - 1919. The Dunedin Branch grew out of the concerns over the moral decline that was occurring in the city. The establishment of the Society filled a need for a more proactive approach to dealing with clients.The Society was actively involved in petitioning Parliament for social reforms which would imporve the lives of those less fortunate, despite the continual failure of government not to progress their proposals, the Society continued to fight until success was achieved.The objects of the Society were simple; to give advice and aid to women and children, to prosecute cases of ill-usage, cruelty and desertion, to adjust family differences, to promote reform, and co-operate with other likeminded organisations.Through its work at both remedial, and reformative basis, the Dunedin Branch of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children was able to make a substantial contribution to bettering the lives of the disadvantaged in Dunedin, and through legislative changes, the lives of all New Zealanders.
'Innocent Women and Children'
Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict zones. Providing a wealth of ground-breaking case studies, the author argues that in order to understand the way in which laws of war are implemented and promoted in international society we must understand how gender ideas affect the principle of civilian immunity. Each case study demonstrates the importance of assumptions about gender relations in shaping international politics, and in developing a framework for incorporating an attention to gender into the often gender-blind scholarship on international norms. As such, this book will be of interest to international relations theorists and to human rights scholars, students and activists alike.
Re-imagining child protection
Why has the language of the child and of child protection become so hegemonic? What is lost and gained by such language? Who is being protected, and from what, in a risk society? Given that the focus is overwhelmingly on those families who are multiply deprived, do services reinforce or ameliorate such deprivations? And is it ethical to remove children from their parents in a society riven by inequalities? This timely book challenges a child protection culture that has become mired in muscular authoritarianism towards multiply deprived families. It calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational beings, parents are recognized as people with needs and hopes and families as carrying extraordinary capacities for care and protection. The authors, who have over three decades of experience as social workers, managers, educators and researchers in England, also identify the key ingredients of just organizational cultures where learning is celebrated. This important book will be required reading for students on qualifying and post-qualifying courses in child protection, social workers, managers, academics and policy makers.
