Anthony McMahon

First published in 1998, Anthony McMahon details the accounts of public agency child welfare dealing abused and neglected children and their families and the pressures on child welfare workers. Opening up the discussion on the ambiguities whilst dealing with balancing child welfare work whilst dealing with the societal pressure of the non-intrusion into family life.

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS Noveletta imprint ... Memoirs of a Social Butterfly The three climbers came over the top of the hill. The ground was like a wet sponge from all the rain. Harry started to slide; it felt like he was on a waterside. When he stopped, he shouted back to Phil. 'Hey, this's great fun ' He took a few steps onto another slide, but this time he picked up speed. Ahead, a large rock was in his path. Harry hit the rock sideways. Looking over the rock only a few feet away, the ground dropped down a sheer cliff ... and a hundred-foot drop He looked back up the mountain ... He could only see Mike; there was no Phil anywhere. But white as a ghost, Mike was coming down towards him. 'Where was Phil'

First published in 1998, Anthony McMahon details the accounts of public agency child welfare dealing abused and neglected children and their families and the pressures on child welfare workers. Opening up the discussion on the ambiguities whilst dealing with balancing child welfare work whilst dealing with the societal pressure of the non-intrusion into family life.

Traditionally, studies on juvenile crime have remained largely silent on the lived experiences of family members. Amid all the public condemnation of -neglectful- parents and -irresponsible- offenders, little or no space has been given to the voices of those actually caught up in the workings of the criminal justice system. "Families, Crime, and Juvenile Justice" by Richard Hil and Anthony McMahon addresses this omission. By focusing on the families of a small group of juvenile offenders in a northern Australian city, this book highlights the many and varied attempts by parents and others to grapple with their son or daughter's offending. It also demonstrates the effects of such offending on the family as a whole and the often less-than-positive outcomes of state intervention. The accounts of parents and others are set in the context of recent family-oriented developments in juvenile justice."

The idea of the sensitive, post-feminist ‘new man’ has received great attention. This book sets out to determine how much of the hype is based on fact, and why such images have proliferated in the media. McMahon focuses on the pivotal issue of men’s relationship to the vital daily work of caring for people - both physically and emotionally - revealing much confusion about the extent and the interpretation of change. Using statistical data, as well as interview transcripts and media analysis, McMahon draws insightful distinctions between pleasure and performance, assistance and responsibility, gendered personality and gendered jobs, and - underlying all - between consumption and production. Incorporating social theory, psychology and popular culture, this book argues that recent social conversation about men largely avoids the important political point that men’s material interests provide a major motivation for resistance to pro-equity change.

The idea of the sensitive, post-feminist 'new man' has received great attention. This book sets out to determine how much of the hype is based on fact, and why such images have proliferated in the media. McMahon focuses on the pivotal issue of men's relationship to the vital daily work of caring for people - both physically and emotionally - revealing much confusion about the extent and the interpretation of change. Using statistical data, as well as interview transcripts and media analysis, McMahon draws insightful distinctions between pleasure and performance, assistance and responsibility, gendered personality and gendered jobs, and - underlying all - between consumption and production. Incorporating social theory, psychology and popular culture, this book argues that recent social conversation about men largely avoids the important political point that men's material interests provide a major motivation for resistance to pro-equity change.