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  • Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts

    A Re-examination of Gender

    Series series Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
    Overwhelmingly, it is women who are the victims of domestic violence and this book puts women’s experiences of domestic violence at its centre, whilst acknowledging their many diverse and complex identities.Concentrating on the various forms of domestic abuse and its occurrence and manifestations within different contexts, it argues that gender is centrally implicated in the unique factors that ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice

    Edited by Sarah Wendt, Nicole Moulding ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice explores feminism as core to social work knowledge, practice and ethics. It demonstrates how gender-neutral perspectives and practices obscure gender discourses and power relations. It also shows feminist social work practice can transform areas of social work not specifically concerned with gender, through its emphasis on relationships and power ... Read more

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  • Responding to Domestic Violence

    Difficult Conversations

    Series series Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
    This book reflects on the problem of domestic violence by thinking critically about policy and practice responses. Moving beyond accounts of men’s violence embedded in metaphors of ‘good’ and ‘bad men’, or as the expressions of particular structures and practices, it initiates challenging conversations concerning the ways in which our embeddedness in gendered discourses shapes the responses that ... Read more

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  • The Sexual Politics of Gendered Violence and Women's Citizenship

    The challenge of violence against women should be recognised as an issue for the state, citizenship and the whole community. This book examines how responses by the state sanction violence against women and shape a woman’s citizenship long after she has escaped from a violent partner.Drawing from a long-term study of women’s lives in Australia, including before and after a relationship with a ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Feminism and 'The Schooling Scandal'

    Feminism and ‘The Schooling Scandal’ brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers, evaluating and celebrating the field of gender and education. The focus throughout is on the years of compulsory schooling, examining key concepts in gender and education identified and developed by international thinkers in educational feminism. Topics covered include ... Read more

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  • Sociology for Social Work

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    Edited by Chris Yuill, Alastair Gibson ...
    This excellent textbook introduces the social work student to the field of sociology, illustrating how sociology is connected to and fundamental to effective social work practice. Each chapter applies theory to practice and is uniquely co-written by a sociologist, social worker and service user. A wide range of topics and subjects relevant to social work are covered, including:-Gender-Class ... Read more

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  • Realist Criminology

    by R. Matthews ...
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  • Core Themes In Social Work: Power, Poverty, Politics And Values

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  • Working with Men

    Feminism and Social Work

    One of feminism's key contributions to improving social work practice has been to expose the gender-blindness which has characterized social work policy and literature.Working with Men extends and diversifies this contribution by presenting a controversial collection of essays written by feminists about men. In what has been a previously unexplored area of social work, the contributors to Working ... Read more

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  • The Homeless Person in Contemporary Society

    The homeless person is thought to be different. Whereas we get to determine our difference or sameness, the homeless person’s difference is imposed upon them and assumed to be known because of their homelessness. Exclusion from housing – either a commodity that should be accessed from the market or social provision – signifies the homeless person’s incapacities and failure to function in what are ... Read more

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    Towards Rights-Based Practice

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