ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section 1|116 pages
Decoloniality, indigeneity and radical theorising
chapter 3|12 pages
Colored demarcations in postcolonial feminism
chapter 4|10 pages
Reversing a one-track history
chapter 7|12 pages
Social Work and Marxism
part Section 2|122 pages
Feminist social work in fields of practice
chapter 13|13 pages
#Reporting worries
chapter 18|13 pages
An intersectional feminist analysis of Australian print media representations of sexual violence by Indian men
part Section 3|94 pages
Academy and feminist research
chapter 23|9 pages
Feminist research in Social Work
chapter 25|13 pages
Academia and gender disparities
chapter 27|11 pages
Feminist leadership and social work
part Section 4|66 pages
The politics of care
chapter 29|9 pages
Life-sustaining communitarian weavings
chapter 30|10 pages
Incubators of the future
chapter 31|13 pages
Parenting through mental health challenges
chapter 32|11 pages
Social work and two types of maternalism
chapter 33|10 pages
Matricentric feminist social work
part Section 5|106 pages
Allyship, profeminisms and queer perspectives
chapter 38|11 pages
Heteropatriarchy and child sexual abuse
chapter 39|11 pages
Making men allies in stopping men's violence via processes of intersectional identification
chapter 43|13 pages
Beyond alternative masculinities and men's allyship
part Section 6|114 pages
Social movements, engaging with the environment, and the more-than-human