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Making Gender Visible

Social Work Responses to Homelessness

University of South Australia, Magill, South Australia, carole.zufferey{at}unisa.edu.au

Social workers’ bodies and identities are gendered. This article examines gender relations in social workers’ accounts of their practices using data from a qualitative study that focused on social workers’ responses to homelessness in three Australian cities. Themes in the data relate to essentialist notions of gender; gender functioning as an invisible form of oppression; heterosexual assumptions in client—worker relationships; and the preferability of feminist approaches, particularly when working with women’s homelessness that is a result of domestic violence.

Key Words: homelessness • social work and gender

This version was published on November 1, 2009

Affilia, Vol. 24, No. 4, 382-393 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0886109909343559


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