Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice is a contemporary look at the issues across a wide spectrum, beyond just equal pay for equal work and reproductive rights, with which women struggle on a daily basis. The Trump administration's call to roll back the progress that women have made over the decades in terms of social welfare benefits, reproductive rights, and employment recognition, alongside the continuing victimization of women who have survived sexual violence, are just a few examples demonstrating why social workers and other human service professionals need to continue to advocate and care for women in particular ways.
This book aims to continue keeping the lives of women and the issues that affect and matter most to them at the forefront of the discussions about society and social services. The text will help readers to gain an understanding of populations of women that they might/will work with in the field of human services. Using demographics, case studies, and best practice/evidence-based programs, the authors collectively provide students and practitioners with a comprehensive knowledge of women from a feminist perspective.
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This book takes a contemporary look at the issues that affect women most from a feminist perspective. Going beyond the equal pay for equal work issue, the authors write about mental health, substance abuse, disabilities, parenting, relationships, criminal justice, and aging, all from a holistic and intersectional perspective.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Women in the Twenty-First Century
Laurie Grant and Shannon Butler-Mokoro
Chapter 1: Feminist Movement Histories
Johanna Foster
Chapter 2: Key Feminist Theoretical Orientations in Contemporary Feminist Practice
Johanna Foster
Chapter 3: Privilege, Oppression, and the Intersections: The Many Faces of Gender and Identity
Allyson Livingstone
Chapter 4: Healthy and Otherwise: Women in Intimate Relationships
Beverly Dolinsky, Robert Jerin, and Brandi Johnson
Chapter 5: Mothering and Child Welfare
Lisa Johnson and Sandra Yudelivich-Espinoza
Chapter 6: Women and Criminalization at the Intersections
Johanna Foster
Chapter 7: Not So Crazed and Confused: Unraveling Women's Mental Health Challenges
Rebecca Mirick
Chapter 8: Escaping from a Harsh Reality: Women and Substance Use Disorders
Shelley Steenrod
Chapter 9: Action Deferred or a Final Call to Fire: Exploring the Health Care Needs, Priorities, and Services for Women Veterans
Lisa Rasheed
Chapter 10: Nothing About Us Without Us: Working with Women Who Have Disabilities
Elspeth Slayter
Chapter 11: Getting Older and Wiser: Working with Older Adult Women
Laurie Grant and MaryAnn Holak
Glossary
Index
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Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practiceaddresses a wide range of women's experiences with an eye toward intersecting identities, interlocking oppressions, and possibilities for liberation. Butler-Mokoro and Grant's text shows how women's multifaceted identities are shaped at individual, interactional, and institutional levels and how helping professionals can use feminist theories and frameworks to better inform their professional practice.
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"Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice addresses a wide range of women's experiences with an eye toward intersecting identities, interlocking oppressions, and possibilities for liberation. Butler-Mokoro and Grant's text shows how women's multifaceted identities are shaped at individual, interactional, and institutional levels and how helping professionals can use feminist theories and frameworks to better inform their professional practice." --
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Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice adeptly weaves together the intersecting threads that constitute women's lives and anchor women's selves to society. Butler-Mokoro and Grant have established an impressive team of contributors who illuminate the intersectional nature of women's lives on issues like motherhood, mass incarceration, war, and aging among others. This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in feminist social work practice and its
interpersonal and structural implications for meaningful social change.
- Sara B. Moore, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Salem State University
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Selling point: Unique in its discussion of social work practice with women from a holistic, intersectional feminist perspective.
Selling point: Features case studies in every chapter.
Selling point: Helps practitioners address the wide variety of "isms" women face in seeking care across the human services spectrum.
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Shannon Butler-Mokoro, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Salem State University. She has been a second generation clinical social worker with experience in mental health and substance abuse. Her teaching expertise and research interests are in cultural competence, social welfare history, women, and faith-based agencies and social work/spirituality.
Laurie Grant, MSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in a private practice (called Reaching a Fork in the Road) north of Boston. Specializing in working with clients who struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder, hoarding, and anxiety, Laurie supervises and teaches students advocacy and social work practice skills at the School of Social Work at Salem State University and North Shore Community College.
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Selling point: Unique in its discussion of social work practice with women from a holistic, intersectional feminist perspective.
Selling point: Features case studies in every chapter.
Selling point: Helps practitioners address the wide variety of "isms" women face in seeking care across the human services spectrum.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780190858780
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
460 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, UP, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320