RT Article
T1 Gendered Attributions of Blame and Failure to Protect in Child Welfare Responses to Sexual Abuse: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis
JF Violence against women
VO 28
IS 6/7
SP 1631
OP 1658
A1 Azzopardi, Corry
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/179695344X
AB Gender-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.
K1 Critical Discourse Analysis
K1 Nonoffending mothers
K1 failure to protect
K1 Child Welfare
K1 Child Sexual Abuse
DO 10.1177/10778012211024263