A2 Annotated Bibliograph 30%
A2 Annotated Bibliograph 30%
Length: 800 words
Weight: 30%
Due: Week 8 Tuesday 23rd April
Introduction
You are to choose one topic from the 5 topics listed below and write an annotated bibliography, focusing on two readings. One of your readings must come from the 101597 Essential and Recommended readings list (see Topic folders in the A2 folder on vUWS). Your second reading may be another of the units Essential and Recommended readings, a reading listed in the relevant Topic Folder on vUWS, or a relevant reading that you have located in your own research.
The A2 aims to get you thinking critically about family violence, and how the critical approach, the research and the arguments made throughout these readings can be used to develop, support and/or challenge the position you are taking in response to the topic you have chosen. We want you to approach this assessment task with an attitude of critical curiosity; teasing out and engaging with some of the more nuanced threads between what we as a society consider normal, how this might be challenged, how we approach this challenge, and how this could potentially impact the experience of family violence across Australia today.
To complete the task, you will download and fill in the A2 Annotated Bibliography Form, located in the A2 Assessments folder on vUWS. The A2 Form will guide you through introducing the reading/s; identifying the readings key arguments; and using these key arguments to substantiate your position in response to your chosen A2 statement.
You will need to read the chosen readings carefully in order to demonstrate your critical understanding of the topic at hand, as well as how the readings you are citing throughout your annotated bibliography inform the topic and the position you have taken in response to the topic statement.
A2 Topics
Topic 1: A Gendered Analysis
Statement: You can be anti-family violence whilst consuming pop culture that encourages/normalizes misogyny and/or patriarchal norms and values.
Topic 2: What About the Children?Statement: The Family Law Court makes decisions putting the best interests of children first and foremost.
Topic 3: Structural Violence Inequality and Fear
Statement: Australia's continuing punitive welfare policies contradicts the current government'spolicy stance on reducing domestic and family violence. This makes it nearly impossible for women and children to successfully re-establish their lives following separation from a violent partner (Maury 2018).
Topic 4: Engaging Men
Statement: The following preventative campaign slogans, 'real men don't hit women', 'man up' and 'be the hero', do more harm than good in the struggle to eliminate family violence across Australia.
Topic 5: First Nations
Statement: The past and present impact of colonisation is the reason for the ongoing high rates of family violence throughout Indigenous communities across Australia.
Instructions
Choose one of the five A2 topics listed below, a topic that you are interested in.
Download the A2 Annotated Bibliography Form, located in the A2 Folder on vUWS.
Select two sources (readings), either two of the essential and/or recommended readings or one of the essential and/or recommended readings and one of the extra readings from the Topic folders in the A2 Folder on vUWS.
Fill in the A2 Annotated Bibliography Form.
Provide a reference list at the end of the A2 Annotated Bibliography Form.
Submission details
Your completed A2 Annotated Bibliography Form must be submitted through the A2 Turnitin link on the 101597 Family Violence vUWS site. No cover sheet is required for this assessment.
Topic: What About the Children?
Statement: The Family Law Court makes decisions putting the best of the children first and foremost (ALRC, 2010).
Essential and Recommended Readings
Flood, M, 2018, Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
Hill, J, 2019, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence, Schwartz Publishing Pty, Limited, Carlton.
Leser, D, 2019, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
OBrien, C, 2014, Blame Changer: Understanding Domestic Violence, Threekookaburras Pty Ltd, Syndal.
Other Resources
ALRC 2010 The Best Interests Principle, Australian Government
Fitz-Gibbon, K 2021 Our National Shame: Violence Against Women Monash University Publishing
Fitz-Gibbon, K McGowan,J and Stewart, R 2023 I believe you: Children and Young Peoples Experiences of Seeking Help, Securing Help and Navigating the Family Violence System, Monash University
Ford, C 2018, Your Honour, I object, in Boys sill be boys, Allen & Unwin.
Henschel,A 2022 Womens Refuge Children and their Way of Life: The womens refuge as a socialisation agent supporting development
Jeffries, S 2017, In the best interests of the abuser: coercive control, child custody proceedings and the expert assessments that guide judicial determinations, Laws, vol. 8
OBrien, C 2016, The Family Court, in Blame changer: understanding domestic violence, Threekookaburras Pty Ltd, Melbourne, pp. 109-117.
Topic:
Statement:
Source 1
(400 words) Source 2
(400 words)
Reference your reading here.
Link to Harvard Referencing GuideNot included in word count. What are the readings key arguments in relation to the A2 statement?
(200 words) How do these arguments substantiate your position in response to the A2 statement?
(200 words)
