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Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice

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Editors:
  1. Christine Cocker

    1. School of Social Work, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

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  2. Trish Hafford-Letchfield

    1. School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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  • Focuses on social work practice through the lens of gender
  • Highlights the significance of examining feminism through intersectionality
  • Presents and discusses ideas that can be translated to practice

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  2. Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice

    • Christine Cocker, Trish Hafford-Letchfield
    Pages 1-14

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-18
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    2. Feminisms: Controversy, Contestation and Challenge

      • Barbara Fawcett
      Pages 19-36

    3. Feminist and Empowerment Theory and Practice: A Powerful Alliance

      • Tina Maschi, Sandra G. Turner, Smita Ekka Dewan, Adriana Kaye, Annette M. Hintenach
      Pages 37-57

    4. Feminist Research and Practice: Reorienting a Politic for Social Work

      • Sam Harrell, Ben Anderson-Nathe, Stéphanie Wahab, Christina Gringeri
      Pages 59-76

    5. A Pedagogy of Our Own: Feminist Social Work in the Academy

      • Sarah Epstein, Norah Hosken, Sevi Vassos
      Pages 77-96

    6. Collaborative Autoethnography for Feminist Research

      • Jennifer Dyer, Sarah Pickett, Jennifer Davis, Kathleen Hackett, Cindy Holmes, Julie James et al.
      Pages 97-116

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-121
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    2. Afrocentric Feminism and Ubuntu-Led Social Work Practice in an African Context

      • Kathomi Gatwiri, Sharlotte Tusasiirwe
      Pages 123-139

    3. Tears of Shame: Sri Lankan Mothers Negotiating Experiences of Caregiving and Disability

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell
      Pages 141-157

    4. Voices of Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan Living with Exacerbated Gender-Based Violence During COVID-19: Conceptualizing a Feminist Perspective for Social Work

      • Dina Pervez Sidhva
      Pages 159-174

    5. The Transformative Potential of Transfeminist Social Work Practice

      • Jama Shelton, Maggie Dunleavy, Kel Kroehle
      Pages 175-187

    6. Exploring the Intersection of Queer Disability as Life Story: A Feminist Narrative Approach to Social Work Research and Practice

      • Jennifer JD Drummond, Shari Brotman
      Pages 189-206

    7. Invisible Women: Critical Perspectives on Social Work and Gender in Later Life

      • Trish Hafford-Letchfield
      Pages 207-228
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Keywords

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Work, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Christine Cocker

  • School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

    Trish Hafford-Letchfield

About the editors

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. 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice

  • Editors: Christine Cocker, Trish Hafford-Letchfield

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94241-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94240-3Published: 25 April 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94243-4Published: 25 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94241-0Published: 24 April 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIII, 362

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Ethics and Values in Social Work, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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