1st Edition

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

300 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Stéphanie Wahab is an Associate Professor at Portland State University’s School of Social Work, USA, and Honorary Research Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work, University of Otago, New Zealand. 

Ben Anderson-Nathe is Associate Professor and Program Director of the Child and Family Studies program at Portland State University, USA.

Christina Gringeri is Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Utah, USA.