Feminisms in social work research: promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge

by Anderson-Nathe, Ben Gringeri, Christina E. Wahab, Stephanie

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Full title :Feminisms in social work research : promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge / edited by Stéphanie Wahab, Ben Anderson-Nathe and Christina Gringeri.

Summary

"Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights, equal rights, violence and poverty. In fact, the social work profession was started by and maintained in large part by women and has been home to several generations of feminists starting with recognized first wave feminists. This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Showcasing the breadth and depth of exemplary social work feminist research, the editors argue that social work's unique focus on praxis, daily proximities to privilege and oppression, concern with social change and engagement with participatory forms of inquiry place social workers in a unique position to both learn from and contribute to broader social science and humanities discourse associated with feminist research. The authors attend here to their specific claims of feminisms, articulate deep engagement with theory, address the problematic use of binaries, and engage with issues associated with methods that are consistently of interest to feminist researchers, such as power and authority, ethics, reflexivity, praxis and difference. Comprehensive and containing an international selection of contributions, Feminisms in Social Work Research is an important reference for all social work researchers with an interest in critical perspectives"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1134589778, 9781134589777, 9781315886992, 1315886995
oclc:ocn885471019
LC Classification:HV1444
Dewey Decimal:361.3072

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Section 1 Feminist Claims in Social Work Research; 2 Doing Critical Feminist Research: A Collaboration; 3 A Letter to Activists Entering Academia; 4 Doing Profeminist Research with Men in Social Work: Reflections on Epistemology, Methodolology, and Politics; Section 2 Theory in Research; 5 Operationalizing Intersectionality in Feminist Social Work Research: Reflections and Techniques from Research with Equity-Seeking Groups.

6 Intersectional Feminism and Social Work Responses to Homelessness7 Borderlands as a Critical Feminist Perspective in Social Work Research; 8 Myths and Monsters: Challenging Assumptions of Poor Working-Class Motherhood through Feminist Research; Section 3 Treatment of Binaries in Research; 9 Feminist Research in the Absence of Gender: Exploring Intersubjectivity in Practice, Purpose, and Representation; 10 Precarious Positioning: Tensions in Doing Siiqqee Feminist Social Work Research.

11 Troubling the Binary: A Critical Look at the Dualistic Construction of Quantitative/Qualitative Methods in Feminist Social Work ResearchSection 4 Engage…

Subjects

Feminism Feminisme POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Service social -- Recherche Service social aux femmes SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist T… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Work Social Service -- Research Social work with women