Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, Magnus Hirschfeld
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Students will be able to critically examine the current discourse surrounding gender and sexual diversity and connect these to circumstances and life experiences of men, women and members of the lgbttq community. Students will be able to describe the role of social workers in working with members of the lgbttq community. Social work is a profession committed to the celebration of diversity, equality and social justice. The comfort and power accorded to people who are in, or are expected to be in, a relationship with a person of a different sex and who conform to dominant gender norms. Use of positivistic science to explain the world around us including gender & sexual orientation. Medicalization biological component- something to be treated not punished. Much of the concern around sexual normality and abnormality focused on whether people were engaging in sex primarily for reproduction (normal) or pleasure (deviant) Vocal in the fight to de-criminalize sodomy (anal sex)