https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:33137 In a hot and dusty township in outback Australia, next to the police station, there is a nicely renovated house with dark grey shutters. It's cool in there, and the fresh-pressed receptionist invites me to a seat and offers a glass of filtered alkaline water whilst I wait for my chiropractic appointment. When it's my turn, I lie on a table with immaculate white sheets. The chiropractor checks my records and proceeds to expertly manipulate my spine to correct any subluxations. She measures my progress towards a goal of optimal health and records this carefully. After the treatment I make my payment to the receptionist, where I am able to claim a rebate from my private health fund. Down the street, a bit further again and around the corner, is another house. This one has a deeply shaded verandah and is painted leaf green. Inside, maybe, depending on the day, I can find a ngangkari - a traditional Australian Aboriginal healer. My friend has brought me here. He introduces me, for he is an established thread in the weavings of social networks here, and I am not. After a wait, quite a wait, a barefoot woman emerges and glances me over. She gestures for me to enter a room and lie on a treatment table. Her eyes are yellowed, and deeply kind. She speaks to me but I do not understand. She rubs my forehead vigorously, and then my belly. There is a lingering smell of leaf smoke in the air. My condition is temporary, and she assures me my spirit is strong. I do not warrant having a stone sucked from me. After the treatment I make a payment at reception , but I cannot make a claim from my health fund.]]> Wed 29 Aug 2018 16:43:02 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:14695 Wed 11 Apr 2018 16:33:14 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:14819 Wed 11 Apr 2018 14:09:01 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:14823 Wed 11 Apr 2018 12:20:23 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:9078 Wed 11 Apr 2018 11:51:03 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:47826 Wed 01 Feb 2023 10:53:16 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:6313 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:49:03 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27469 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:32:42 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30256 Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice explores feminism as core to social work knowledge, practice and ethics. It demonstrates how gender-neutral perspectives and practices obscure gender discourses and power relations. It also shows feminist social work practice can transform areas of social work not specifically concerned with gender, through its emphasis on relationships and power. Within and outside feminism, there is a growing assumption that equality has been won and is readily available to all women. However, women continue to dominate the ranks of the poor in developed and developing countries around the world; male perpetrated violence against women and children has not reduced; women outnumber men by up to three to one in the diagnosis of common mental health problems; and women continue to be severely underrepresented in every realm of power, decision-making and wealth. This worrying context draws attention to the ways gender relations structure most of the problems faced by the women, men and children in the day-to-day worlds in which social work operates. Drawing together key contemporary thinking about feminism and its place in social work, this international collection looks at both core curriculum areas taught in social work programs and a wide range of practice fields that involve key challenges and opportunities for future feminist social work.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:24:52 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29779 Mon 08 Aug 2022 14:58:40 AEST ]]>