| Description |
xiii, 246 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
State of welfare |
|
State of welfare.
|
| Contents |
Introduction: women and social work in the 1990s / Mary Langan -- 1. Women and oppression: race, class and gender / Lesley Day -- 2. Women's psychology and feminist social work practice / Marilyn Lawrence -- 3. Social work and power relations: towards a framework for an integrated practice / Marie McNay -- 4. Who cares? Women in the mixed economy of care / Mary Langan -- 5. Feminism, managerialism and performance measurement / Carol Lupton -- 6. Malestream training? Women, feminism and social work education / Pam Carter, Angela Everitt and Annie Hudson -- 7. The child sexual abuse 'industry' and gender relations in social work / Annie Hudson -- 8. Women with learning difficulties are women too / Fiona Williams -- 9. Working with black single mothers: myths and reality / Agnes Bryan -- 10. Women in residential work: dilemmas and ambiguities / Cathy Aymer -- 11. Lesbians, the state and social work practice / Helen Cosis Brown |
|
12. Social work and older women: where have older women gone? / Beverly Hughes and Melody Mtezuka |
| Summary |
Offers a new perspective on feminist social work which takes account of the complexity of the manifold oppressions that affect the lives of most women and most social work clients |
| Analysis |
Welfare work Role of Feminism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Great Britain.
|
|
Sex discrimination -- Great Britain.
|
|
Social service -- Great Britain.
|
| Author |
Day, Lesley.
|
|
Langan, Mary.
|
| LC no. |
92000288 |
| ISBN |
0415076110 |
|
0415080304 |
|
