1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms in Social Work
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.
