Gender, Power and Relationships

Edited by Charlotte Burck, Bebe Speed

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About the Book

Gender, Power and Relationships is a follow-up volume to Gender and Power in Families (Routledge 1989) which marked a milestone in the application of feminist thinking to therapeutic work with families, bringing new ideas to students, trainers and professionals.

Contributions from leading practitioners demonstrate how feminist ideas have been taken up by therapists in a variety of different settings. The chapters explore and extend previous debates on sexual and physical abuse and ethnicity, addressing the many contradictions and dilemmas inherent in this work for feminist systemic approaches. They also consider changing family structures and the role of men within them, gendered aspects of HIV prevention, and work with women drug addicts, and a variety of other approaches each set in the context of an overview of feminist theories of the family.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. the construction of gender in family therapy 2. The wounded prince and the women who love him 3. Abuse, risk and protection: a fifth provice approach to an adolescent sexual offense 4. Reclaiming a female mind from the experience of child sexual abuse 5. Hierarchy in families where sexual abuse is an issue 6. Connection and distance: gendered thinking in a statutory agency dealing with child sexual abuse 7. Gender, power and relationships: ethno-cultural and religious issues 8. Race and gender issues in adult psychiatry 9. Dangerous liasons: issues of gender and power in HIV prevention and care 10. The importance of being connected: implications for work with women addicted to drugs 11. Moving on: gender beliefs in post-divorce and stepfamily process 12. What are fathers for? 13. Unpacking masculinity: from rationality to fragmentation 14. The social construction of a caring career 15. Feminism and the family