Author : Alice A. Lieberman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social service
ISBN : 9781933478296
Women in Social Work Who Have Changed the World highlights the lives and contributions of fifteen contemporary social workers hailing from nations around the globe. The success stories of these remarkable women, relayed through personal interviews, prove that determination and strength of character can trump even the most intimidating hardships and obstacles. This book describes the risks taken and sacrifices made by women from backgrounds as varied as Tanzania and East. --
Author : Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Candice Goucher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2347 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : History
ISBN :
This indispensable reference work provides readers with the tools to reimagine world history through the lens of women's lived experiences. Learning how women changed the world will change the ways the world looks at the past. Women Who Changed the World: Their Lives, Challenges, and Accomplishments through History features 200 biographies of notable women and offers readers an opportunity to explore the global past from a gendered perspective. The women featured in this four-volume set cover the full sweep of history, from our ancestral forbearer "Lucy" to today's tennis phenoms Venus and Serena Williams. Every walk of life is represented in these pages, from powerful monarchs and politicians to talented artists and writers, from inquisitive scientists to outspoken activists. Each biography follows a standardized format, recounting the woman's life and accomplishments, discussing the challenges she faced within her particular time and place in history, and exploring the lasting legacy she left. A chronological listing of biographies makes it easy for readers to zero in on particular time periods, while a further reading list at the end of each essay serves as a gateway to further exploration and study. High-interest sidebars accompany many of the biographies, offering more nuanced glimpses into the lives of these fascinating women.
Author : Shannon R. Lane
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1544316194
Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World is an approachable and student-friendly text that links policy and practice and employs a critical analytic lens to U.S. social welfare policy. With particular attention to disparities based on class, race/ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation and gender, authors Shannon R. Lane, Elizabeth Palley, and Corey Shdaimah assess the impact of policies at the micro, meso, and macro levels.
Author : Mary Ellen Richmond
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2003-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807861200
Polls tell us that most Americans--whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year--think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, "middle class" is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel Walkowitz approaches the question of what it means to be middle class from an innovative angle. Focusing on the history of social workers--who daily patrol the boundaries of class--he examines the changed and contested meaning of the term over the last one hundred years. Walkowitz uses the study of social workers to explore the interplay of race, ethnicity, and gender with class. He examines the trade union movement within the mostly female field of social work and looks at how a paradigmatic conflict between blacks and Jews in New York City during the 1960s shaped late-twentieth-century social policy concerning work, opportunity, and entitlements. In all, this is a story about the ways race and gender divisions in American society have underlain the confusion about the identity and role of the middle class.
Author : Christine Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108452817
Equips students with a critical perspective and develops their understanding of social work practice.
Author : Alice A. Lieberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780190616052
"Social work," writes Alice Lieberman, "is the only profession for whom social justice is a core value." The fifteen extraordinary women profiled in this book have lived this core value to the furthest extent. Each of these women has used the teachings of the social work profession to enact profound social change in communities around the world. This book describes the risks taken and sacrifices made by women from places as varied as Tanzania and East Baltimore, as different as India and Wisconsin, by women who undertake the heavy tasks of providing housing and food for HIV positive community members and designing programs for elder care in impoverished communities. These stories, told through personal interviews, prove that determination and strength of character can trump even the most intimidating hardships and obstacles. Women in Social Work Who Have Changed the World is an absorbing, inspirational must-read for all social workers who have ever felt overwhelmed by the task of improving the lives of their clients, or for anyone who has ever doubted that one person can make an impact.
Author : Gail Ukockis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190239395
Resource added for the Human Services 105203 program and Substance Abuse Counselor Education diploma 315501.
Author : Dalton Conley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520397843
This vivid memoir captures how race, class, and privilege shaped a white boy’s coming of age in 1970s New York—now with a new epilogue. “I am not your typical middle-class white male,” begins Dalton Conley’s Honky, an intensely engaging memoir of growing up amid predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York’s Lower East Side. In narrating these sharply observed memories, from his little sister’s burning desire for cornrows to the shooting of a close childhood friend, Conley shows how race and class inextricably shaped his life—as well as the lives of his schoolmates and neighbors. In a new afterword, Conley, now a well-established senior sociologist, provides an update on what his informants’ respective trajectories tell us about race and class in the city. He further reflects on how urban areas have (and haven’t) changed over the past few decades, including the stubborn resilience of poverty in New York. At once a gripping coming-of-age story and a brilliant case study illuminating broader inequalities in American society, Honky guides us to a deeper understanding of the cultural capital of whiteness, the social construction of race, and the intricacies of upward mobility.
