Browsing Social work - Seattle by Subject "Gender studies"
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Between International Policy and Local Practice: Negotiating Meaning and Strategies to Address Domestic Violence in Nepal
In recent decades, domestic violence (DV) has gained traction as an international concern. The Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) outlined steps that governments should take to live up to commitments expressed in the ... -
Emergent Strategies for Urgent Times: A Critical Autoethnographic Inquiry into Embodiment, Decolonization and Transformative Social Change
Staged against the backdrop of our ecological crises, this autoethnographic inquiry is, at its core, a journey of awakening. Challenging the normative divisions between knowledge-production and wisdom-generating processes ... -
Experiences of Healthcare Providers of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Foster Youth
As a disproportionately overrepresented group in public child welfare, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) foster youth have unique health disparities and needs related to their marginalized identities. This ... -
Overrepresented, Underserved: The Experiences of LGBTQ Youth in Girls Detention Facilities in New York State
(2013-07-23)Among LGBTQ youth, queer women, transgender and gender non-conforming youth have been particularly marginalized in social science research, social service settings, and in the community, where they are especially vulnerable ... -
“Whoever I Find Myself To Be”: Past, Present, and Future Selves of Bisexual Emerging Adult Men and Trans Masculine Individuals
The Institute of Medicine (2011) has recognized LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) adults as an understudied and underserved population at-risk of poor physical and mental health outcomes, such as high rates ...