This Handbook is the first volume to address the dynamic issues related to sexuality from a social work perspective by providing a comprehensive, current and international overview of issues related to sexuality.
It explains how each issue is important and critically discusses the leading views in the area, providing diverse and inclusive perspectives from leading scholars in the field. Divided into seven parts:
Structural Context Sexual Identities Sexuality trough the Lifespan Health, Mental Health, and Sexuality Sexual Health and Well-Being: Pleasure, Desire, and Consent Practice Issues Regulating Sexuality: Historical and Contemporary Legislation
It will be of interest to students, academics, researchers,and practitioners of social work and related health and social care subjects, and is particularly relevant for practice courses as well as courses on Human Growth and Development and Human Behavior in the Social Environment.
Edited by:
SJ Dodd
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 980g
ISBN: 9780367358662
ISBN 10: 0367358662
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 556
Publication Date: 20 July 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction. Part 1: Structural Context. 1. Social Work and Sexual Health: A History. 2. Heteronormativity and Social Work: The What That Dare Not Speak its Name. 3. Combatting Cisnormativity in Social Work Education, Research and Practice. Part 2: Sexual Identities. 4. Asexuality. 5. Navigating Genders and Orientations: An Exploration of Bisexuality and Pansexuality. 6. Social Work Practice with Sexual Minority Men: History, Terminology and Social Context. 7. Social Work Practice with Sexual Minority Men: A Developmental & Life Course Perspective. 8. ‘Corrective Rape’ and Black Lesbian Sexualities in South Africa: Negotiating the Tensions Between ‘Blackwashing’ and ‘Pinkwashing’ Homophobia. 9. Beyond 50 Shades: BDSM and Kink for Social Workers. 10. What the Heart Wants: Polyamory, Compersion and Monogamish Arrangements. Part 3: Sexuality Through the Lifespan. 11. Intersections Between Body Image, Sexual Identity, and Sexual Well-being Among Gender-Diverse Youth. 12. Sexuality and Relationships Education in Group Homes. 13. LGBT+ Parenting. 14. Sexual and Gender Identity in Older Age. 15. Social Work and LGBTQ Aging. 16. Intimate Expression During the End of Life: Considerations for Practitioners Working with Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults. Part 4: Health, Mental Health, and Sexuality. 17. Sexuality and Cancer. 18. Spectrums: Autism, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality. 19. Sexy Spoonies And Crip Sex: Sexuality and Disability in a Social Work Context. 20. A Vision of Justice: Seeing the Sex-ABILITY of People with Intellectual Disabilities. 21. Neurodiverse Relationships: When Partners’ Brains are Wired Differently. Part 5: Sexual Health and Well-Being – Pleasure, Desire, And Consent. 22. Orgasm and the Desire to be Desirable. 23. Understanding Consent Among Emerging Adults: Wrestling with the Social Construction of Gender, Sexuality, and Salient Social Categories. 24. Grab ‘Em by the Pussy: An Exploration of Consent in the #MeToo Era. 25. Sexual Violence and the Steps to Recovery: From Reporting to Healing. Part 6: Practice Issues. 26. Sex Therapy: Social Worker’s Potential as Sexuality Experts. 27. Rethinking Sexual Risk. 28. Therapist Self-Disclosure: Use of Self as a Transgender Therapist. 29. Somatic Experiencing and Sexuality: Trauma Resolution, Embodied Integration, and Sexual Health. 30. Safeguarding Young People in Care: Sexuality and Relationship Education. 31. Reacting to Sexually (Un)acceptable Behavior with the Flag System. 32. Show Me the Ropes: Common Kink Community Practices. 33. Applying Critical Feminist Theory and Praxis to Examine Contemporary Social Work Education, Practice, Policy, and Research with Individuals in the Sex Trades. Part 7: Regulating Sexuality: Historical and Contemporary Legislation. 34. Sexing and Genderizing Policy: Moving Beyond Binaries and Normatives. 35. Scoping the Literature about LGBTQI Migrants: A Critical Synthesis of Knowledge Produced about LGBTQI Migrants and Implications for Social Work. 36. From Fallen Women to the Tumblr Ban: Representing the Landscape of Sex Work from a Historical and Legal Perspective. 37. Regulation of Kink and BDSM: Pathologization through Diagnostic Tools.
SJ Dodd, MSEd., MSW, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor, at the Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY, and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also founding Director of the Silberman Center for Sexuality and Gender (SCSG).
Reviews for The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities
This volume brings together scholarship on sexualities and social work, offering a much-needed survey that builds upon strengths, raises questions about liberation, and challenges cis- and heteronormativities. A key reference work, this handbook considers the intersection of sexuality with questions of race, gender, disability, and trans issues and considers vital implications for practice with various service user groups. Dr Stephen Hicks, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Manchester, UK. The International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities, edited by SJ Dodd is a work of great scope and information. Sexuality has been buried in Social Work discourse, but SJ Dodd and the authors of the 37 chapters in this text have broken wide open the doors to this sealed sepulchre, and it's about time. What a wonderful, rich, collection covering a wide range of sexuality issues. This should be required reading for all social work students and faculty too. Gerald P. Mallon, DSW, Julia Lathrop Professor of Child Welfare, Associate Dean for Scholarship and Research, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, New York City, USA. This outstanding volume brings together a vast amount of knowledge on social work and sexualities across the lifespan, exploring topics ranging from sexual identities to sexual health and well-being. It provides a wellspring of state-of-the-art thinking, research evidence and practical information that will help students and practitioners develop their skills to work in different areas related to sexuality. Monica Lopez Lopez, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
