Practising critical reflection to develop emancipatory change : challenging the legal response to sexual assault / Christine Morley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morley, Christine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape--Australia.

Rape.

Rape victims--Legal status, laws, etc--Australia.

Rape victims.

Law reform--Australia.

Law reform.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By reshaping ideas that have previously been considered as predominantly theoretical and abstract, Morley's work provides an innovative framework that enables social work and human services practitioners to find hope, agency and practical strategies to work towards change, despite operating in contexts that appear immutably oppressive.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Locating Myself in the Research; How Will This Book Be Organised?; 2 The Legal Response to Sexual Assault; Introduction; Problems with the Legal Responses to Sexual Assault; Conclusion; 3 Theorising the Impact and Thinking about Change; Victims/Survivors' Experiences of the Legal System; Secondary Victimisation; A Feminist Analysis of Sexual Assault; Social Myths; Feminist Analyses of Sexual Assault and the Law; Feminist Approaches to Change; The Decision to Report; Conclusion

4 The Need for Law ReformIntroduction; Law Reform; The Limitations of Law Reform; Failure to Change the Social Context; Conclusion; 5 Alternatives for Thinking about Change: Critical Postmodernism and Critical Reflection; Introduction; Postmodernism; Critical Postmodernism; Critical Reflection; Conclusion; 6 Stories from Front-line Practice; Introduction; Barbara; Rose; Bella; Andrea; Olivia; Christine; Conclusion; 7 Identifying and Challenging Barriers to Change; Introduction; Objectivity and Reflexivity; A Structural Analysis: Contributing to Practitioner Powerlessness; Fatalism and Agency

The Construction of Service Users as PowerlessParticipants' Construction of Their Counsellor/Advocate Role; Conclusion; 8 Finding Alternative Paths: Resisting Further Obstacles to Change; Introduction; Professionalism, Hierarchy and Oppositional Power Relations; Power; Macro Social Change as the Ultimate Change Strategy? Revaluing the Contribution of Counselling; Identifying and Challenging Unhelpful Dominant Discourses; Uncovering and Changing Other Unhelpful Discourses - The Final Pieces; Conclusion; 9 How Does Critical Reflection on Practice Develop Possibilities for Change?; Introduction

1) That Even in the Most Disempowering Contexts it is Possible for Practitioners to Envisage Power to Bring about Change2) Critical Reflection Is a Powerful Tool to Assist Practitioners to Connect With Their Sense of Agency; Conclusion; 10 Critical Postmodern Theory: Enhancing Feminist Practices and Prospects for Change; Introduction; Critical Postmodernism: An Important Ingredient for Contemporary Feminist Practice; Contextual Considerations; 11 Final Reflections and Concluding Comments; Can Critical Reflection be Harmful for Participants?; Recommendations for Future Research

Concluding CommentsAppendix 1: Deconstruction Questions; Appendix 2: Reconstruction Questions; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4724-0758-X

1-317-07648-6

1-315-60195-8

1-4094-6259-5

9781315601953

OCLC:

950005721