Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice

Feminist social work has clear goals to expose and critically analyse gendered power as a dynamic, historic, and structural concept embedded in our world, and to mobilise and take social action to challenge that power. This is integral to a commitment to the core values of the social work profession, which include a commitment to human rights, social justice and professional integrity. This edited collection brings a range of academic and practitioner scholarship to centre feminist theories, values and knowledge as they apply to social work practice, theory and education. It engages with feminist thinking to re-emphasise and refocus the centrality of gender and its intersections with other axes of identities such as social class, race, disability, sexuality and age, for understanding and analysing social work practice. This collection is a timely reminder of what feminist inquiry has to offer social work to successfully address contemporary challenges and is applicable to practitioners, scholars, educators, students and other key care professionals and policy makers. Christine Cocker is Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, UK Trish Hafford-Letchfield is Professor of Social Work, University of Strathclyde, UK.

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Christine Cocker is Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, UK Trish Hafford-Letchfield is Professor of Social Work, University of Strathclyde, UK.

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Feminist social work has clear goals: to expose and critically analyse gendered power as a dynamic, historic, and structural concept embedded in our world, and to mobilise and take social action to challenge that power. This is integral to a commitment to the core values of the social work profession, which include a commitment to human rights, social justice and professional integrity. This edited collection brings together a range of academic and practitioner scholarship to centre feminist theories, values and knowledge as they apply to social work practice, theory and education. It engages with feminist thinking to re-emphasise and refocus the centrality of gender and its intersections with other axes of identities such as social class, race, disability, sexuality and age, for understanding and analysing social work practice. This book is a timely reminder of what feminist inquiry has to offer social work to successfully address contemporary challenges and is applicable to practitioners, scholars, educators, students and other key care professionals and policy makers.

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Chapter one: Rethinking feminist theories for social work practice; Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Christine CockerSection 1: Editorial: Feminisms and Social Work; Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Christine Cocker

Chapter 2: Feminist and empowerment theory and social work practice; Sandra G. Turner & Tina M. Maschi

Chapter Three: What does social work gain from feminist research?; Ben Anderson-Nathe, Christina Gringeri, and Stephanie Wahab

Chapter Four: Critical Feminist Pedagogy; Sarah Epstein, Sevi Vassos and Norah Hoskin

Section 2 Editorial: Evidence and criticality; Christine Cocker and Trish Hafford-Letchfield

Chapter five: The European Observatory on Femicide; Marceline Naudi

Chapter Six: Theories of Transfeminism; Jama Shelton

Chapter Seven: New feminisms? Using peer-based research to understand the everyday experiences of sex workers in South Australia; Roxana Baratosy, Priscilla Dunk-West and Sarah Wendt

Chapter Eight: Collaborative Auto-ethnography for feminist research; Sarah Pickett ; Annie Pullen Sansfaçon; Jennifer Davis; Julie James; Jennifer Dyer Cindy Holmes; Julie Temple Newhook

Chapter Nine: Relationship status in later life: Living in the margins; Trish Hafford-Letchfield

Section 3 Editorial: Intersectionality; Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Christine Cocker

Chapter Ten: "Doing" Afrocentric social work the African Feminist way; Kathomi Gatwiri

Chapter Eleven: Tears of Shame: Sri Lankan Mothers & Partner's Negotiating Experiences of Caregiving and Disability; Fiona Kumari Campbell

Chapter Twelve: Exploring the intersection of queer disability as life story: A Feminist-narrative approach to social work practice; Jennifer Drummond and Shari Brotman

Section 4 Editorial : Gender in social work practice; Christine Cocker and Trish Hafford-Letchfield

Chapter Thirteen: Work Requirements as Wage Theft: A Feminist Critique of Welfare Logic; William Lane and Kristie Lyn Seelman

Chapter Fourteen: Does feminist social work practice need time? Gender, parenting and changing times for social work; Linda Bell

Chapter Fifteen: Lesbian parenting - rebellious or conformist?; Christine Cocker Chapter Sixteen: Child sexual exploitation, victim blaming or rescuing: negotiating a feminist perspective on the way forward; Jane Dodsworth

Chapter Seventeen; Positioning men in social work as a feminist issue; Jason Schaub

Chapter Eighteen: A relational approach to work with couples where men have been violent towards women; feminist dilemmas and contributions to Social work practice; Rebecca Infanti-Milne and Lee Walton

Chapter Nineteen: Feminist perspectives on Social Work Leadership; Adi Cooper and Lyn Romeo