Feminist social work: an expression of universal human rights
- 1998
- p.917-29
- Oct
Feminists have highlighted the failure of traditional social work education to raise the issue of gendered power relations and their importance to social work practice. The process whereby this has been done has been both dificult and uneven, whether in the field or the academy. This paper considers the development of feminist social work in the United Kingdom, focusing specifically on how it has altered from being concerned with `women's issues' as women were added onto the social work agenda at the beginning to being considered an integral part of the social work curriculum more recently. Moreover, the subject of its analysis and practice now has moved on to consider how gendered relations in social work affect men to both privilege and problematise masculinity. At the same time, women have become a more differentiated category with the valuing of differences between women occupying centrestage. An analysis of the failure of the strengths and weaknesses of feminist social work will be included in the analysis. - Reproduced