Family Boundaries: The Invention of Normality and Dangerousness

by Caroline Knowles

Book Overview

Family Boundaries shows what can be accomplished when families are viewed from the multi-perspectives of biography and of agencies charged with detecting and managing child abuse and setting boundaries of acceptable behavior in family life. Apart from our personal notions of the family, a social sense of it has developed from the professional practice--narratives which focus on dangerousness, thus rendering the family in rather rigid and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155111108X
• ISBN13: 9781551111087
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"