Intersectionality in Social Work: Activism and Practice in Context

ISBN-13: 9781138628168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Rachel Robbins; Suryia Nayak

Opis

Intersectionality is a concept that refutes the idea of mutually exclusive categories of identity, experience and analysis. Using the lens of intersectionality to shine a light on social work across national, racial, religious, cultural and embodied borders, this book brings together a range of international perspectives to highlight the importance of Black feminist theory in social work. It provokes wider debates by asking crucial questions about how intersectionality can challenge the structures and discourses of social work within a wider global context and how this applies to services-users, carers and workers in the field. Bringing intersectionality to the forefront of social work within a Black feminist framework this book is concerned with practice and action that transgresses boundaries of race, religion and citizenship, to invoke the idea of social work without borders. It offers a unique, sustained critical analysis of the psychological impact of oppressive social structures from diverse range of international standpoints and will appeal to all those concerned by inequality and injustice in social work as well as those with research interests gender studies, race and ethnicity and sociology.