Two-Spirited People and Social Work Practice
Diversity of sexual orientation appears to be universal throughout human history. This article explores gender and sexual diversity of non-Aboriginal and traditional First Nations groups in North America, and the reclamation of traditional roles and identities by contemporary two-spirits. This artic...
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ftunivwindojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/5817 2023-05-15T16:15:54+02:00 Two-Spirited People and Social Work Practice Alaers, Jill 2019-04-24 text/html application/pdf https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw/article/view/5817 https://doi.org/10.22329/csw.v11i1.5817 eng eng University of Windsor https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw/article/view/5817/4748 https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw/article/view/5817/4762 https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw/article/view/5817 doi:10.22329/csw.v11i1.5817 Copyright (c) 2010 Critical Social Work Critical Social Work; Vol 11 No 1 (2010): Special Indigenous Issue 1543-9372 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2019 ftunivwindojs https://doi.org/10.22329/csw.v11i1.5817 2020-11-10T14:53:42Z Diversity of sexual orientation appears to be universal throughout human history. This article explores gender and sexual diversity of non-Aboriginal and traditional First Nations groups in North America, and the reclamation of traditional roles and identities by contemporary two-spirits. This article argues that social workers, as well as various other human service professionals stand to improve the quality of their practice by seeking deeper understanding of sexual and gender diversity through exploration of historic First Nation traditions of two-spirit roles as well as the intersecting multiple oppressions impacting two-spirits in urban, rural and reserve locations. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Windsor, Ontario: Open Journal Systems Critical Social Work 11 1 |
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Diversity of sexual orientation appears to be universal throughout human history. This article explores gender and sexual diversity of non-Aboriginal and traditional First Nations groups in North America, and the reclamation of traditional roles and identities by contemporary two-spirits. This article argues that social workers, as well as various other human service professionals stand to improve the quality of their practice by seeking deeper understanding of sexual and gender diversity through exploration of historic First Nation traditions of two-spirit roles as well as the intersecting multiple oppressions impacting two-spirits in urban, rural and reserve locations. |
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