teaching with gender : European women's studies in international and interdisciplinary classrooms
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Leskosek, Vesna > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2009
- Thesaurus
- maatschappelijk werk, hulpverlening, vrouwelijkheid, vrouwenlichamen, seksualiteit, moederschap, onderwijs, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This book questions the fact that social work education often fails to incorporate gender, even though most of the people that use social work services are women, a majority of social workers are women, and women have had throughout history a significant role in the establishment of social work. The profession of social work started to emerge early in the twentieth century, when femininity was constructed in a way that supported the public/private division. This applied, in particular, to a woman’s body and her appearance, to her morality, sexuality and motherhood, which in turn determined her social opportunities. Social work played a role in these processes in various ways, depending on the prevailing beliefs about women and femininity.