Book Launch Ruth Beecher
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
We would love to see you at the launch of Ruth Beecher’s new book, Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s.
Drawing on archival research and newly gathered in-depth oral history interviews, Beecher interrogates the history of the role of community health practitioners, including health visitors, doctors and community mental health practitioners, in identifying and responding to child sexual abuse within the family.
The event will take place in the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London.
Speakers include Tracey Loughran (Professor for History at the University of Essex, with an interest in gender, body, selfhood, and health), Sophie Olson (a survivor-activist, author of The Flying Child, and founding director of ‘The Flying Child’ CIC – leading conversations about child sexual abuse), and Deborah Hodes (a retired consultant community paediatrician with an interest in female genital mutilation and child sexual abuse, now advising the Lighthouse and other committees).
The talks will be followed by refreshments and a chance for informal discussion
Book your free place!
Contact name: Adeline Moussion
Speakers- Deborah Hodes
- Dr Ruth Beecher
- Prof Joanna Bourke
- Sophie Olson
- Tracey Loughran
Tags:
- Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
- Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
- Birkbeck Law School
- Book readings/launches
- Faculty of Business and Law
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
- School of Historical Studies
- School of Natural Sciences
- School of Psychological Sciences
- School of Social Sciences