Feminisms in Social Work Research : Promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780415707114 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 299 str.

Stephanie Wahab; Ben Anderson-Nathe; Christina Gringeri

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Stéphanie Wahab, Ben Anderson-Nathe, and Christina Gringeri  Section 1: Feminist Claims in Social Work Research  2. Doing Critical Feminist Research: A Collaboration  Andrea Daley, Lucy Costa, and Lori Ross  3. A Letter to Activists Entering Academia (Notes on Making the Transition from Activist to Activist-Scholar)  Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis  4. Doing Profeminist Research with Men in Social Work: Reflections on Epistemology, Methodolology, and Politics  Bob Pease  Section 2: Theory in Research  5. Operationalizing Intersectionality in Feminist Social Work Research: Reflections and Techniques from Research with Equity-Seeking Groups  Wendy Hulko  6. Intersectional Feminism and Social Work Responses to Homelessness  Carole Zufferey  7. Borderlands as a Critical Feminist Perspective in Social Work Research  Kimberly Dree Hudson  8. Myths and Monsters: Challenging Assumptions of Poor Working Class Motherhood through Feminist Research  Victoria Foster  Section 3: Treatment of Binaries in Research  9. Feminist Research in the Absence of Gender: Exploring Intersubjectivity in Practice, Purpose, and Representation  Ann Curry-Stevens  10. Precarious Positioning: Tensions in Doing Siiqqee Feminist Social Work Research  Martha Kuwee Kumsa  11. Troubling the Binary: A Critical Look at the Dualistic Construction of Quantitative/Qualitative Methods in Feminist Social Work Research  Sandra Leotti and Jennifer Muthanna  Section 4: Engagement with Methodology  12. Collage as Reflexivity: Illustrations and Reflections of a Photovoice Study with Sex Workers  Moshoula Capous-Desyllas  13. Building Solidarity through Collective Consciousness in Feminist Participatory Action Research  Rupaleem Bhuyan, Flavia Genovese, Rachel Mehl, Bethany Osborne, Margarita Pintin-Perez, and Fernanda Villanueva  14. Positionality and Privilege in Qualitative Research: Feminist Critical Praxis  Karen Morgaine  15. Critical Feminist Social Work and the Queer Query  Jen Self  16. Considering Emotion and Emotional Labor in Feminist Social Work Research  Gita Mehrotra  17. Conclusion  Stéphanie Wahab, Ben Anderson-Nathe, and Christina Gringeri