This book covers content on LGBT* populations as articulated by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and discusses the pragmatic aspects of social work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Chapters in this book focus on topics such as: LGBT persons of color--heterosexism, racism, and sexism, the stress-coping process, practice with bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming persons, sexual conversion therapy, traditional psychoanalytic notions of lesbian couples .the impact of sexual abuse on lesbian couples, internalized homophobia, heterocentrism, and gay identity, group work practice with the LGBTQ community, clinical assessment for families where sexual orientation is an issue .LGBT parenting, the role of health care. (*LGBT = lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender)
In this collection voices in feminist and queer theory are brought together to create an interdisciplinary dialogue that will define the terms of the debates between and within feminist and queer a theoretical framework.These debates revolve around the multiple interrelated issues - such as gender, identity, intimacy, privacy, and sex harassment - that all extend from the emphasis given to gender on the one hand and sex and sexuality on the other. These two theories have much in common but also much that distinguishes them from one another, and that causes tension. The authors in this volume explore the legal, political, social and cultural implications of their distinct theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality.