Part I. Introduction and overview -- Introduction / Elaine Norman and Arlene Mancuso -- Sex roles and sexism / Elaine Norman -- A herstory of women in social work / Susan T. Vandiver -- Part II. A view of the particular -- No drums, no trumpets : Working-class women / Arlene Mancuso -- Aging and old age : The last sexist rip-off / Audrey Faulkner -- Ain't I a woman / Barbara Joseph -- The social work profession encounters the battered woman / Eleanor Kremen -- New knowledge and the drinking woman / Eileen Corrigan -- Some mothers are lesbians / Bernice Goodman -- Part III. A view of systems -- Women and the health care system : Implications for social work practice / Elinor Polansky -- Women and the mental health system / Gloria Donadello -- Women and income maintenance programs / Susan Maizel Chambre -- Women administrators in social work / Roslyn Chernesky.