TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Power, Gender, and Social Work Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
JO  - Affilia
A1  - Hanisch, Danielle
A1  - Moulding, Nicole
SP  - 278
EP  - 290
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
N2  - This article reports on a study that used qualitative interviews with 10 social workers about their therapeutic practice with women who were sexually abused as children. It explores two dominant discursive themes that were identified in the analysis: normalizing the effects of childhood sexual abuse and gender power in practice. The analysis found that while engagement with narrative therapy brings a strong emancipatory orientation, normalizing the effects of abuse by distinguishing them from "real" mental illness comes at the cost of restigmatizing other groups of clients, and dualistic understandings of feminism and post-structuralism narrow engagement with the complex ways in which gender power operates in women's lives.<p /> 
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SN  - 0886-1099
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109911417694
ID  - ref1
ER  -