ABSTRACT
The previous chapter explored the feminist social work literature’s proposal that women social workers can adopt a feminist identity as the basis for their practice and reviewed perspectives that have questioned this proposal. The literature has suggested that this feminist social work identity should be geared towards establishing egalitarian relationships between women social workers and women service users, with the goal of empowerment. Some writers have queried the sustainability of this position because they have regarded it as not grounded in the realities of practice in the statutory context.
