Creating Places of Livability. The New Law on Personal Status Calls on Social Work to Move

Melanie Groß, Katrin Niedenthal (Hg.): Geschlecht: divers. Die ‚Dritte Option‘ im Personenstandsgesetz – Perspektiven für die Soziale Arbeit. transcript Verlag. 2021.

Authors

  • Ute Zillig Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2022.187

Keywords:

Gender, Social Work, Intersexuality, Transsexuality

Abstract

What is the significance of the newly created "third option" in the Personal Status Act for the social work profession? Social work is urgently called upon to make its way towards more gender and sexual diversity, to develop itself further and to question its own contribution to the cementing of a two-gender order. The anthology "Gender: Divers" brings together valuable contributions on this topic, which, along with insights into various fields of work, stimulate both necessary professional (self-)reflections and institutional further developments in the sense of gender and sexual diversity. With theoretical references to queer, feminist and postcolonial work, the authors discuss ways of orienting social work in research, teaching and professional practice beyond heteronormative bisexuality.

 

Author Biography

Ute Zillig, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Social worker and social scientist, professor for trauma-sensitive social work at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, main areas of work: gender-based violence and consequences, trauma-sensitive social work, gender diversity in feminist social work

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Buchcover Geschlecht: Divers, ohne Abbildung, dunkelblau und gelb

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Published

2022-01-10

How to Cite

Zillig, U. (2022). Creating Places of Livability. The New Law on Personal Status Calls on Social Work to Move: Melanie Groß, Katrin Niedenthal (Hg.): Geschlecht: divers. Die ‚Dritte Option‘ im Personenstandsgesetz – Perspektiven für die Soziale Arbeit. transcript Verlag. 2021. Open Gender Journal, 6. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2022.187

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Vol. 6 (2022): Open Gender Journal

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