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    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
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    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how ‘home’ is used in social work literature by showing how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and existential.Drawing on multidisciplinary understandings of 'home' and intersectionality, it analyses the privileging and disadvantaging social ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This book broadens the concept of hope used in social work research, education, policy and practice. Moving beyond individualist analyses of hope that construct social workers as givers and holders of hope, it draws on intersectionality to argue that individualist articulations of hope in social work need to be interrogated to make visible structural and social contexts that are often marked by ... Read more

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    Series series Interdisciplinary Research in Motherhood
    This book presents new interdisciplinary and intersectional research about women as mothers, highlighting that alternative accounts of mothering can challenge normative societal assumptions and broaden understandings of women as mothers, mothering and motherhoods.Mothering occurs within unequal power relations associated with the disadvantages and privileges of an unjust and patriarchal society. ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
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