%0 Journal Article
%T Making Gender Visible
%J Affilia
%D 2009
%A Zufferey, C.
%V 24
%N 4
%P 382-393
%X 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.<p />
%G 
%I SAGE Publishing
%@ 0886-1099
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109909343559