'Race', Gender, Social Welfare

Encounters in a Postcolonial Society
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7456-2285-9
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

This book explores the relationship between 'race', gender and policy to develop an important and original argument about social welfare and racial formation in the late twentieth century.

The book presents a layered and finely textured analysis of the issue of 'ethnic minority' women in professional social work in Britain. The analysis contextualizes their entry in terms of an understanding of the developing relationship between racial formation and its expression in local and central policy and policy-making. In the process, the author builds upon and greatly extends the current analyses of social policy and 'race' and gender. Using a skilful mix of theory, empirical research and interviews, the book explores the complexities of the racialized and gendered world of the social services department. The result is an important contribution to the literature that draws on feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic and social constructionist perspectives to develop an argument about processes of racial formation.


'Race', Gender, Social Welfare will be of interest to students, academics and practitioners in the fields of social welfare, social work, ethnic and women's studies and discourse analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Gail

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements viii
List of Abbreviations ix

Preface xi

Introduction 1

PART I. GOVERNING RACIAL FORMATION 19

1. Configuring the Terrain: Governmentality, Racialized Population and Social Work 21

2. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: ‘Race’, Social Policy and the Blind Eye of Central Government 43

3. Sites of Condensation: Social Services and Racial Formation at the Local Level 77

4. ‘The Call of the Wild’: Contestatory Professional Discourses on ‘Race’ and Ethnicity 118

PART II. COMPLEX ACTS OF BECOMING: WORKING ‘RACE’ AND GENDER 135

5. ‘Evidence of Things Not Seen’: The Complexities of the ‘Everyday’ for Black Women Social Workers 138

6. Categories of Exclusion: ‘Race’ and Gender in the SSD 155

7. Situated Voice: ‘Black Women’s Experience’ and Social Work 170

Conclusion 202

Notes 207

References 211

Index 222

Über Autor(innen)

Gail Lewis is at the Open University