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Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work
Karen W. Tice
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Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 400.
Writing case records was central to the professionalization of social work, a task that by its very nature "created clients, authorities, problems, and solutions." In Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women, Karen W. Tice argues that when early social workers wrote about their clients they transformed individual biographies into professional representations. Because the social workers were attuned to the intricacies of language, case records became focal points for debates on science, art, representation, objectivity, realism, and gender in public charity and reform. Tice uses 150 case records of early practitioners from a number of reform organizations and considers myriad books ... Read more
Writing case records was central to the professionalization of social work, a task that by its very nature "created clients, authorities, problems, and solutions." In Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women, Karen W. Tice argues that when early social workers wrote about their clients they transformed individual biographies into professional representations. Because the social workers were attuned to the intricacies of language, case records became focal points for debates on science, art, representation, objectivity, realism, and gender in public charity and reform. Tice uses 150 case records of early practitioners from a number of reform organizations and considers myriad books ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252066986
SKU
V9780252066986
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Reviews for Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1999.