Our Greatest Challenge
aboriginal children and human rights
$38.43
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2012
Summary
Our Greatest Challenge: Confronting Aboriginal Child Abuse
Hannah McGlade’s new book bravely addresses the complex and fraught issue of Aboriginal child abuse. She argues that Aboriginal child sexual assault has been formed within the entrenched societal forces of racism, colonisation and patriarchy, yet cast in the Australian public domain as an Aboriginal ‘problem’, with controversial government responses critiqued as racist and paternalistic.
McGlade highlights that non-A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922059109 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922059102 |
| Author: | Hannah McGlade |
| Publisher: | Aboriginal Studies Press |
| Imprint: | Aboriginal Studies Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 455g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 152mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
Winner of the 2011 Stanner Award[A] brave and powerful contribution to understanding a major social evilMcGlade considers the emotional and social costs, the changing legal status, and points to directions to changing the conditions that lead to child sexual abuse. Judges.I am full of admiration for the work Professor Chris Goddard, Director Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia
About The Author
Hannah McGlade
Hannah McGlade is a Noongar woman living in Perth. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (Murdoch University 1995), a Masters in Law (Murdoch University 2001) and a PhD (Curtin University 2011). Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor to the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1996, Hannah has specialised in human rights law and her work has been the subject of many publications and test cases concerning Aboriginal human rights. She is a member of the WA State Administrative Tribunal Human Rights stream and an Adjunct Researcher at the Curtin Centre for Human Rights Education.
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