SWRK 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Therapeutic Relationship, Intersectionality, Working Poor
29 Nov 2016
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Allows for an analysis of gender, specifically how gender shapes and impacts the experiences of men and women in society: ex. / pay gap, unpaid labour [being a mom doesn"t pay] Allows for a better understanding of how social and agency policies are gendered: ex. / criminalized abortion, physical labour, A gender lens can more effectively respond to the needs of women, especially in terms of interventions. Gives women hope that they won"t get punished for leaving their spouse, etc. Calling girls slutty, say they"re wearing too much makeup, skirt too short, etc. How can we as social workers begin to address this? intersectionality. An intersectional lens helps us to identify how women are positioned differently in society, and experience marginalized and oppression in different ways, depending on their locations. Ex. / a black poor women doesn"t experience everything that a black person, a poor person, and a white person experiences, it"s a smaller mix.
