Social Work and Gender Studies. Vindicating a Specific Scientific Space

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Abstract

This article analyzes, from a gender and feminist perspective, the scientific-academic status of Social Work within the hierarchy of university knowledge. We start with the consequences derived from the university reform that privileges a privatized and androcentric model and a commodification of knowledge that limits professionals who research on social, applied and gender issues, based on "other" methodologies and from "other" spaces. We focus on the Spanish context and the links of Social Work with gender and feminist studies; both transit in "common places" such as feminization of its members, the themes, the methodologies, and their ways of doing science. Nevertheless, the knowledge of Social Work is considered "second", both in Social Sciences as in the Gender and Feminist Studies. We conclude by vindicating the recognition of their scientific contributions and a space of its own for research in Social Work.

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Belén Agrela Romero, Universidad de Jaén, España

Profesora Titular de Universidad en la Facultad de Trabajo Social de Jaén. Doctora en Trabajo Social y Antropología (2006) realizó su tesis doctoral sobre las políticas de acción social con población inmigrante, atendiendo especialmente al impacto que provocan las migraciones sobre las mujeres. Es actualmente directora del programa de doctorado interuniversitario sobre Estudios Migratorios. Miembro del Seminario Académico “Mujer, Ciencia y Sociedad” de la Universidad de Jaén. Docente de la asignatura Trabajo Social y Género y docente en diversos programas de postgrado, entre los de destaca el GEMMA (Erasmus Mundus europeo en Estudios de las Mujeres y de Género). Autora de numerosas publicaciones e investigaciones nacionales e internacionales sobre género, miembro del grupo de investigación “Gestión de cuidados y evaluación de políticas asistenciales en cronicidad, envejecimiento y cuidados paliativos” (CTS-990).

Amalia Morales Villena, Universidad de Granada

Dra. Profesora Titular de Universidad en Trabajo Social. Departamento de Trabajo Social y Servicios Sociales. Universidad de Granada. España.

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Published

2018-08-13

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Romero, B. A., & Villena, A. M. (2018). Social Work and Gender Studies. Vindicating a Specific Scientific Space. Revista Estudos Feministas, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

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Vol. 26 No. 2 (2018)

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