1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms in Social Work
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 women’s studies.
Introduction
Carolyn Noble, Shahana Rasool, Linda Harms-Smith, Gianinna Munoz Arce and Donna Baines
Section One – Decoloniality, Indigeneity and Radical Theorising
Chapter One – Feminisms in Social Work Practice
Carolyn Noble
Chapter Two – Locating African feminism, Womanisms and Nego-feminism – Possibilities for social work
Shahana Rasool
Chapter Three – Colored Demarcations in Postcolonial Feminism: Can the Subalterned Social Worker Now Speak?
Melinda Madew
Chapter Four – Reversing a one-track history: Listening to minority voices at the intersections of gender, race, and intellectual disability
Patience Udonsi
Chapter Five – Privileging Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom as Feminist Social Work Practitioners
Péta Phelan and Bindi Bennett
Chapter Six – Tensions and dialogues between intersectional and decolonial feminist contributions to Latin American Social Work
Lelya Troncoso-Pérez, Karina Pinto G. and Rocío Gallardo Aranguren
Chater Seven – Social work and Marxism: Unitary perspective in the anti-racist, feminist, and anti-imperialist struggle
Marina Machado-Gouvêa and Camila Carduz-Rocha
Chapter Eight – Social Work, indigenous feminisms and decolonisation of public policies in Chile
Alicia Rain Rain
Chapter Nine – The intersectionality Body-Territory-Daily Life in Mayan-Xinka Community Feminism. Its importance for Social Work
Silvana Martínez and Juan Agüero
Chapter Ten – Feminism, Politics, and Social Work
Ruth Phillips
Section Two – Feminist Social Work in Fields of Practice
Chapter Eleven – Resisting Carcerality, Embracing Abolition Implications for Feminist Social Work Practice
Beth E. Richie and Kayla M. Martensen
Chapter Twelve – Gender empowerment in youth work in Palestine: A missing link
Abeer Musleh
Chapter Thirteen – An intersectional feminist analysis of Australian print media representations of sexual violence by Indian men: Implications for social work
Jillian Barraud, Carole Zufferey and Helena de Anstiss
Chapter Fourteen – #Reporting Worries: Narratives of sexual harassment and intersecting inequalities in Swedish social work
Mona Livholts, Sanna Stenman and Louise Thorén Lagerlöf
Chapter Fifteen – Where do I belong? Feminism, social work, and women with intellectual disabilities
Kelley Johnson, Emily Ardley and Alisha Gilliland
Chapter Sixteen – A critical race feminist rights (CRFR) social work approach to trafficking of women in South Africa
Ajwang Warria
Chapter Seventeen – Nego-Feminist practices adopted by senior women traditional leaders in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa to address women abuse
Tanusha Raniga and Gladys Nkareng Klaas-Makolomakwe
Chapter Eighteen – The impact of patriarchy on premarital relationships in Nigeria
Augusta Olaore, Oluwatobiloba Bello and Oluwafikayomi O. Banjo
Chapter Nineteen – Feminist social work practice and efforts towards gender equality in Australia
Elizabeth Orr, Louise Morley, Wendy Bunston, Carrie Maclure and Louise Whitaker
Chapter Twenty - Feminisms and social work: The development of an emancipatory practice
Jeannette Bayisenge
Section Three - Academy and Feminist Research
Chapter Twenty-one – Knowing subjects? Feminist epistemologies, power struggles and social work research
Stephen Hicks
Chapter Twenty-two – Feminist Participatory Action Research with Breast Cancer Survivors in China
Yuk Yee LEE and Hok Bun KU
Chapter Twenty-three – Feminist Research in Social Work: Epistemological-Methodological Keys from the South
María Eugenia Hermida and Yanina Roldán
Chater Twenty-four – Feminist Queries: Exploring Feminist Social Work Research Questions
Stéphanie Wahab, Ben Anderson-Nathe and Christina Gringeri
Chapter Twenty-five – Academia and gender disparities: A critical historical analysis of academic careers of Chilean social workers from a feminist-intersectional approach
Gabriela Rubilar Donoso, Catherine LaBrenz, Paz Valenzuela Rebolledo and Gianinna Munoz-Arce
Chapter Twenty-six – Creating space for critical feminist social work pedagogy
Sarah Epstein, Norah Hosken and Sevi Vassos
Chapter Twenty-seven – Feminist Leadership and Social Work: The Experience of Women Leaders in Palestinian Universities
Najwa Safadi
Chapter Twenty-eight – The contributions of Latin American feminisms to Social Work undergraduate academic training in Argentina
Melisa Campana Alabarce, Laura Lorena Leguizamón and Maria Belén Verón Ponce
Section Four - The Politics of Care
Chapter Twenty-nine – Life-Sustaining Community Weavings: Feminist Interpellations of the Approach of Community Social Work
Javiera Cubillos Almendra
Chapter Thirty – Incubators of the future: Motherhood, biology and pre-birth social work in feminist practice
Eileen Joy and Liz Beddoe
Chapter Thirty-one – Parenting through mental health challenges: Intersections of gender, race, poverty and power
Rochelle Hine and Hanna Jewell
Chapter Thirty-two – Social Work and Two Types of Maternalism: Supporting Single Mothers through Strategic Maternalism
Tashiko Yokoyama
Chapter Thirty-three – Matricentric feminist social work: Towards an organising conceptual framework and practice approach to support empowered mothering
Sarah Epstein and Pippa Mulley
Chapter Thirty-four – Feminized Care Work, Social Work and Resistance in the Context of Late Neoliberalism
Donna Baines
Section Five – Allyship, Profeminisms and Queer Perspectives
Chapter Thirty-five – Social Work Reckons with Cisnormativity & the Gender Binary
Jama Shelton and Courtney Virginia Fox
Chapter Thirty-six – Marica and Travesti Interpellations to Conservative Social Work Practices
Alejandra Gutiérrez Saracho and Claudio Barbero
Chapter Thirty-seven – Generation Old and Proud: No going back in the closet
Teresa Savage and Jude Irwin
Chapter Thirty-eight – Heteropatriarchy and child sexual abuse: Contemplating profeminist practice with men
Alankaar Sharma and Amelia Wheeler
Chapter Thirty-nine – Making Men Allies in Stopping Men’s Violence via Processes of Intersectional Identification: A Study of Swedish Profeminist Men
Keith Pringle, Anna-Lena Almqvist and Linn Egeberg Holmgren
Chapter Forty– Men, Feminist Welfare, and Allyship in Social Work Education
Goetz Ottmann and Iris Silva Brito
Chapter Forty-one – ‘Men’ as social workers: Professional identities, practices and education
Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin and Alastair Christie
Chapter Forty-two – Ally work at the intersections: theorising for practice and practicing for theory
Glenda Kickett, Antonia Hendrick and Susan Young
Chapter Forty-three – Beyond Alternative Masculinities and Men’s Allyship: Troubling Men’s Engagement with Feminisms in Social Work and Human Services Practice
Bob Pease
Section Six - Social Movements, Engaging with the Environment, and the More-than-Human
Chapter Forty-four – Deliberate Democracy and the MeToo Movement: Examining the Impact of Social Media Feminist Discourses in India
Akhila K P and Jilly John
Chapter Forty-five – “We can’t just sit back and say it’s too hard”: Older women, social justice, and activism
Tina Kostecki
Chapter Forty-six – Feminist Social Work Responses to Intersectional Oppression Faced by Ethnic Minority Women in Japan
Osamu Miyazaki
Chapter Forty-seven – The contribution of feminist new materialism to social work
Vivienne Bozalek
Chapter Forty-eight – Eco-Femagogy: A Red-Green Perspective For Transforming Social Work Education In The Post-Covid World
Susan Hillock
Chapter Forty-nine – ‘Intersectionality, feminist social work, animals and the politics of meat’
Heather Fraser and Nik Taylor
Chapter Fifty – Ecofeminism and the Popular Solidarity Economy in Latin American Social Work: Resistance to the patriarchal and capitalist system
Juana Narváez Jara
Chapter Fifty-one – The Futures of Writing With Posthuman Feminism in Social Work
Mona B. Livholts and Fanny Södergran
Chapter Fifty-two – Eco-feminist responses to climate change and its gendered impacts
Leah Holdsworth and Jennifer Boddy
Biography
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.
