Gender and Family

Viviene E. Cree is Professor of Social Work Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is a qualified youth and community worker and social worker, and has written and researched extensively on social work.

• Introduction - Viviene E. Cree; 1. Women and children first. Contemporary Italian moral panics and the role of the state - Morena Tartari; 2. Myths, monsters and legends: negotiating an acceptable working class femininity in a marginalised and demonised Welsh locale - Dawn Mannay; 3. Making a moral panic - ‘Feral families’, family violence and welfare reforms in New Zealand: Doing the work of the state? - Liz Beddoe; 4. The wrong type of mother: moral panic and teenage parenting - Sally Brown; 5. Amoral panic: The fall of the autonomous family and the rise of ‘early intervention’ - Stuart Waiton; Afterword Maggie Mellon