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 womens studies.
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 Mens 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 Mens Allyship: Troubling Mens 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 cant just sit back and say
its 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.
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.
