Making gender visible : social work responses to homelessness
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2009
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Zufferey, C.
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Affilia - Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, 2009; 24(4):382-393
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Social workers' bodies and identities are gendered. This article examines gender relations in social workers' accounts of their practices using data from a qualitative study that focused on social workers' responses to homelessness in three Australian cities. Themes in the data relate to essentialist notions of gender; gender functioning as an invisible form of oppression; heterosexual assumptions in clientworker relationships; and the preferability of feminist approaches, particularly when working with women's homelessness that is a result of domestic violence.
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Copyright 2009 The Authors