Judith Mosoff – Child Protection and Mental Disability: When Will ‘Bad Mothering’ Be in the DSM?
With a particular interest in mothers with mental disability UBC Law Professor Judith Mosoff analyze child welfare decisions about continuing custody orders made in British Columbia in recent years. These cases depict families that are deeply troubled. Virtually every decision portrays these characteristics: the mother is a lone parent, characterized as having a mental illness, an addiction or both; the family is poor; at least one of the children is said to have a disability; mothers lose their children. In this talk, Professor Mosoff analyzes the ways mental disability is used as a weapon to remove children from their families.
Speaker bio
Judith Mosoff joined the Faculty of Law in 1991, having taught in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University and the Department of Psychology at Ryerson Polytechnical University. Called to the Bar of B.C. in 1983, Professor Mossoff has practised as a mental health lawyer. She teaches in the areas of disability, criminal and children’s law. Her research is in the area of disability, particularly mental disability. Currently, her research and community activities concern inclusive education for children and youth with intellectual disabilities.
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Mosoff, J. “’Why Not Tell it Like It Is?’: The example of 238 PH v. Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority, A Minor in a Life Threatening Context” Full text: (2012) 63 U.N.B.L.J. 238-252 [UBC Print Holdings]
Mosoff, J. “Lost in Translation?: The Disability Perspective in Honda v. Keays and Hydro-Québec v. Syndicat” Full text: (2009) 3 McGill J.L. & Health 137-149 [SSRN Paper]
Mosoff, J., and Grant, I. “Upholding Corporal Punishment: For Whose Benefit?” Full text: (2005) 31:1 Man. L.J. 177-199 [UBC Print Holdings]
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Pat Vertinsky – Reconsidering The Demise of the Female Tradition in Physical Education
Since at least the 1980s, much research, policy and practice in the field of physical education for girls has been trapped in a repeated lament that we have yet to find the solution to ‘the problem’ of girls’ lack of participation in physical education and consequent negative effects on their health and wellbeing. The narrative builds upon dominant progress and loss stories, which have cemented a stock account of the history of the female tradition in physical education in a fixed temporal entrapment. It describes how women in England led the field in establishing and maintaining the profession from the late 1800s only to lose their power and authority in the decades following WW2 to a burgeoning male physical education profession. This mid-20th century move from female to male dominance in physical education has been described as one of the most striking phenomena of recent educational history.
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Vertinsky, P. A. (1990). The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century. New York; Manchester, UK; New York, NY, USA: Manchester University Press.
Hargreaves, J., Vertinsky, P. A., & MyiLibrary. (2006). Physical culture, power, and the body. Abingdon, Oxon, England; New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203014653. [Link]
McKay, S., & Vertinsky, P. (2004). Memory, monument, modernity: Disciplining bodies in the gymnasium. Routledge.[Link]
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