Practice and Research in Social Work: Postmodern Feminist by Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Jan Fook, Amy Rossiter

By Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Jan Fook, Amy Rossiter

Even if postmodernist conception has been relating to and explored in sociology and social coverage, this publication is among the 1st to use the theories to social paintings, and relate them to present debates. members come from the united kingdom, Australia, South Africa and Canada and plenty of have expert adventure as social staff. They appraise the main matters within the contested box of postmodernism and feminism and concentrate on their functions to perform, examine and schooling in social paintings.

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