ABSTRACT
Critical analysis of the impact of gender on social work education is still at an early stage. This is not, however, because of a lack of feminist debate. The emergence of a number of formal and semi-formal networks over the last few years has ensured much discussion (see for example Women and Social Work Education 1987). A national Women and Social Work Education conference at Ruskin College in 1986 generated a number of local networks, several of which continue to provide lively forums for discussion and action. Another conference on the subject of women and social work, held also at Ruskin College in 1989, revealed the continuing vitality of these debates. The aim of this chapter is to make such debates more public and to contribute further to feminist analysis of social work education (Smith 1986; McLeod 1987).
