{"product_id":"queering-professionalism-adam-davies-9781487552510","title":"Queering Professionalism: Pitfalls and Possibilities","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on neoliberalism and its intersection with systems of oppression, inequalities, and the regulation of queer knowledge and subjectivities, \u003cem\u003eQueering Professionalism\u003c\/em\u003e provides a distinct contribution to the emerging literature on the regulation and professionalization of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals and others marginalized by cisheteronormativity within the \"helping professions\" and social services.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection seeks to queer and disrupt ideas and understandings of the helping professions as benevolent and inherently caring by bringing together a diverse range of authors from different fields within the helping professions, such as child and youth care, education, early childhood education, dietetics, and social work. The book draws connections between neoliberalism, professionalization, structures of cisheteronormativity, and other intersecting oppressions to examine the possibilities and pitfalls of professionalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors come from various social service and helping professions to collectively critique how neoliberalism operates to silence and regulate marginalized perspectives within the various social service and education fields. By thinking with and employing queer theoretical frameworks, \u003cem\u003eQueering Professionalism\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines and disrupts neoliberal regimes that rationalize the violent conditions within and outside of helping institutions and orientations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Davies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487552513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487552510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Adam Davies","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46571393777919,"sku":"9781487552510","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1bda4463-cd62-47df-a0cf-97df254c372b.jpg?v=1738808106","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queering-professionalism-adam-davies-9781487552510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}