Gender and Social Work: Positions and Practices

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. I. Conceptual underpinnings: 1. Concept of gender/Gouri Srivastava. 2. Caste, partriarchy and gender/Meenu Anand and Malathi Adusumalli. 3. Strands of feminism/Sunita Dhal. 4. Feminist perspective on sexual abuse in spousal violence/Archana Dassi and Swati Bist. 5. Gender mainstreaming: a panoramic view from theory to practice/Nilima Srivastava. 6. Feminist economics and social work: looking for alternatives/Malathi Adusumalli. II. Practitioner’s perspectives: 7. Social work in schools: integrating gender concerns/Meenu Anand. 8. Gender and mental health: implications for social work education and practice/Abraham Francis and Shyni Palakudiyil Elias. 9. The exclusion experiences of visually impaired female students in the Indian higher education system/Abhishek Thakur and Chandima Jayasena. 10. Social work and sex trafficking/Adusumalli Madhavi. 11. Climate change and disasters: gendered impacts and responses/Soumya Dutta. 12. Gender in social work education and practice in India/Meenu Anand. Index. 

The book Gender and Social Work: Positions and Practices integrates the philosophical positioning and the conceptual framework behind gender and applies it in guiding the social work practice. 

The uniqueness of book is its integration of theoretical framework and the practice based domains in social work profession. The book is divided into two broad sections. The book is divided into two broad sections. While the first section unveils the philosophical positions and the various theoretical frameworks, the second section focuses on the multitude of practice situations in which gender lens is used to analyze the contexts, and provide tools for practice such as family settings, mental health concerns, human trafficking and justice concerns climate change issues.

The book attempts to be innovative and informative with a multi-disciplinary perspective and would be very useful for academicians/students, practitioners in areas such as gender, social work, women’s studies and also for policy makers. This book helps in interrogating and setting the social work practice, research and teaching-learning agenda with a feminist framework reiterating the overarching principles of social work profession of respect for the inherent worth and dignity of human beings, doing no harm, respect for diversity and upholding human rights and social justice. (jacket)