Gendered Attributions of Blame and Failure to Protect in Child Welfare Responses to Sexual Abuse: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

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dc.contributor.authorAzzopardi, C.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-17T20:26:05Z
dc.date.available2023-01-17T20:26:05Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractGender-based relations of power and attributions of blame for child sexual abuse have been longstanding in child welfare policy and practice. Nonoffending mothers continue to be ascribed responsibility through the ideologically and institutionally entrenched doctrine of failure to protect. Feminist critical discourse analysis was used to (a) expose and disrupt dominant discourses of gender, motherhood, and risk that operate to construct and reinforce notions of blame and failure to protect, as enacted by way of child welfare text in context; and (b) build a credible case for social and organizational change grounded in an alternative discourse with greater explanatory power. Progressive avenues for resistance, negotiation, and transformation are proposed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAzzopardi, C. (2022). Gendered attributions of blame and failure to protect in child welfare responses to sexual abuse: a feminist critical discourse analysis. Violence against women, 28(6-7), 1631-1658.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34515580/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5691
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherViolence against womenen_US
dc.subjectnonoffending caregiversen_US
dc.subjectblameen_US
dc.subjectchild sexual abuseen_US
dc.subjectdiscourse analysisen_US
dc.subjectchild protectionen_US
dc.titleGendered Attributions of Blame and Failure to Protect in Child Welfare Responses to Sexual Abuse: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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