The Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms in Social Work

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-03-232760-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 682 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

This handbook highlights innovative and affect-driven feminist dialogues that inspire social work practice, education, and research across the globe. The editors have gathered the many (at times silenced) feminist voices and their allies together in this book which reflects current and contested feminist landscapes through 52 chapters from leading feminist social work scholars from the many branches and movements of feminist thought and practice. The breadth and width of this collection encompasses work from diverse socio-political contexts across the globe including Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North America, Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.

The book is divided into six parts as follows:

• Decoloniality, Indigeneity and Radical Theorising

• Feminist Social Work in Fields of Practice

• Academy and Feminist Research

• The Politics of Care

• Allyship, Profeminisms and Queer Perspectives

• Social Movements, Engaging with the Environment and the More-than-Human

The above sections present the diverse feminisms that have influenced social work which provides a range of engaging, informative and thought-provoking chapters. These chapters highlight that feminists still face the battle of working towards ending gender-based violence, discrimination, exploitation and oppression, and therefore it is urgent that we feature the many contemporary examples of activism, resistance, best practice and opportunities to emphasise the different ways feminisms remain central to social work knowledge and practice.

It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work and related disciplinary areas including the social and human sciences, global and social politics and policy, human rights, environmental and sustainability programmes, citizenship and women’s studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noble, Carolyn

Baines, Donna

Rasool, Shahana

Munoz-Arce, Gianinna

Harms-Smith, Linda

Muñoz-Arce, Gianinna

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

0.Introduction.  Section One – Decoloniality, Indigeneity and Radical Theorising.  1.Feminisms in Social Work Practice.  2.Locating African feminism, Womanisms and Nego-feminism – Possibilities for social work.  3.Colored Demarcations in Postcolonial Feminism: Can the Subalterned Social Worker Now Speak?  4.Reversing a one-track history: Listening to minority voices at the intersections of gender, race, and intellectual disability.  5.Privileging Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom as Feminist Social Work Practitioners.  6.Tensions and dialogues between intersectional and decolonial feminist contributions to Latin American Social Work.  7.Social work and Marxism: Unitary perspective in the anti-racist, feminist, and anti-imperialist struggle.  8.Social Work, indigenous feminisms and decolonisation of public policies in Chile.  9.The intersectionality Body-Territory-Daily Life in Mayan-Xinka Community Feminism. Its importance for Social Work.  10.Feminism, Politics, and Social Work.  Section Two – Feminist Social Work in Fields of Practice.  11.Resisting Carcerality, Embracing Abolition Implications for Feminist Social Work Practice.  12.Gender empowerment in youth work in Palestine: A missing link.  13.An intersectional feminist analysis of Australian print media representations of sexual violence by Indian men: Implications for social work.  14.#Reporting Worries: Narratives of sexual harassment and intersecting inequalities in Swedish social work.  15.Where do I belong? Feminism, social work, and women with intellectual disabilities.  16.A critical race feminist rights (CRFR) social work approach to trafficking of women in South Africa.  17.Nego-Feminist practices adopted by senior women traditional leaders in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa to address women abuse.  18.The impact of patriarchy on premarital relationships in Nigeria.  19.Feminist social work practice and efforts towards gender equality in Australia.  20.Feminisms and social work: The development of an emancipatory practice.  Section Three - Academy and Feminist Research.  21.Knowing subjects? Feminist epistemologies, power struggles and social work research.  22.Feminist Participatory Action Research with Breast Cancer Survivors in China.  23.Feminist Research in Social Work: Epistemological-Methodological Keys from the South.  24.Feminist Queries: Exploring Feminist Social Work Research Questions.  25.Academia and gender disparities: A critical historical analysis of academic careers of Chilean social workers from a feminist-intersectional approach.  26.Creating space for critical feminist social work pedagogy.  27.Feminist Leadership and Social Work: The Experience of Women Leaders in Palestinian Universities.  28.The contributions of Latin American feminisms to Social Work undergraduate academic training in Argentina.  Section Four - The Politics of Care.  29.Life-Sustaining Community Weavings:  Feminist Interpellations of the Approach of Community Social Work.  30.Incubators of the future: Motherhood, biology and pre-birth social work in feminist practice.  31.Parenting through mental health challenges: Intersections of gender, race, poverty and power.  32.Social Work and Two Types of Maternalism: Supporting Single Mothers through Strategic Maternalism.  33.Matricentric feminist social work: Towards an organising conceptual framework and practice approach to support empowered mothering.  34.Feminized Care Work, Social Work and Resistance in the Context of Late Neoliberalism.  Section Five – Allyship, Profeminisms and Queer Perspectives.  35.Social Work Reckons with Cisnormativity & the Gender Binary.  36.Marica and Travesti Interpellations to Conservative Social Work Practices.  37.Generation Old and Proud: No going back in the closet.  38.Heteropatriarchy and child sexual abuse: Contemplating profeminist practice with men.  39.Making Men Allies in Stopping Men’s Violence via Processes of Intersectional Identification: A Study of Swedish Profeminist Men.  40.Men, Feminist Welfare, and Allyship in Social Work Education.  41.‘Men’ as social workers: Professional identities, practices and education.  42.Ally work at the intersections: theorising for practice and practicing for theory.  43.Beyond Alternative Masculinities and Men’s Allyship: Troubling Men’s Engagement with Feminisms in Social Work and Human Services Practice.  Section Six - Social Movements, Engaging with the Environment, and the More-than-Human.  44.Deliberate Democracy and the MeToo Movement: Examining the Impact of Social Media Feminist Discourses in India.  45.“We can’t just sit back and say it’s too hard”: Older women, social justice, and activism.  46.Feminist Social Work Responses to Intersectional Oppression Faced by Ethnic Minority Women in Japan.  47.The contribution of feminist new materialism to social work.  48.Eco-Femagogy: A Red-Green Perspective For Transforming Social Work Education In The Post-Covid World.  49. ‘Intersectionality, feminist social work, animals and the politics of meat’.  50.Ecofeminism and the Popular Solidarity Economy in Latin American Social Work: Resistance to the patriarchal and capitalist system.  51.The Futures of Writing With Posthuman Feminism in Social Work.  52.Eco-feminist responses to climate change and its gendered impacts.

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Noble, PhD, is a former Associate Dean and Foundation Professor of Social Work at Australian College of Applied Professions in Sydney, Australia.

Shahana Rasool, PhD, is a Professor and Head of the Social Work Department at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Linda Harms-Smith, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Gianinna Muñoz-Arce, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Director of the University of Chile Department of Social Work.

Donna Baines, PhD, is a Professor and Former Director of the University of British Columbia School of Social Work, Vancouver, Canada.