Practice and Research in Social Work:

This volume appraises key issues in the contested fields of postmodernism and feminism, focusing on applications in relation to practice, research and education in social work. This book is among the first to apply postmodernist theory to social work and relate it to current debates.

Notes on contributors

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction

1

(4)

Jan Fook

Brid Featherstone

Setting the scene: an appraisal of notions of postmodernism, postmodernity and postmodern feminism

5

(19)

Barbara Fawcett

Brid Featherstone

Introduction

5

(1)

Poststructural and postmodern perspectives

5

(2)

Feminism against postmodernism

7

(1)

The question of postmodernism

8

(2)

Feminism for postmodernism

10

(9)

Conclusion

19

(5)

The postmodern feminist condition: new conditions for social work

24

(15)

Amy Rossiter

The crisis of knowledge

24

(6)

The crisis of identity

30

(3)

Feminist postmodernism, social work and radical democracy

33

(6)

Reading the texts: postmodern feminism and the `doing' of research

39

(23)

Liz Trinder

Introduction

39

(1)

Three social work research trends

40

(10)

Poststructuralist/postmodern feminism and research practice

50

(2)

Analytic narrative analysis

52

(4)

Conclusion

56

(6)

Researching disability: meanings, interpretations and analysis

62

(21)

Barbara Fawcett

Introduction

62

(1)

`Disability': a contested area

63

(2)

Postmodern feminism

65

(4)

The deconstructive textual analysis: some considerations

69

(1)

Deconstructive textual analysis: an application

70

(4)

The application of reformulations drawn from postmodern feminism to disability and social work

74

(4)

Concluding remarks

78

(5)

A postmodern perpective on professional ethics

83

(21)

Amy Rossiter

Isaac Prilleltensky

Richard Walsh-Bowers

Introduction

83

(3)

Liberal humanism and professional ethics

86

(5)

Shifting the domain of ethics to social relations

91

(6)

Towards a postmodern conception of ethics

97

(7)

Deconstructing and reconstructing professional expertise

104

(16)

Jan Fook

Introduction

104

(1)

Challenges

105

(2)

Implications for social work

107

(1)

Challenges for professional expertise in social work

108

(1)

Researching professional expertise in social work

109

(2)

The study

111

(2)

Comparing the findings with modernist notions of expertise

113

(1)

Reconstructing professional expertise

114

(2)

Features of professional expertise in a postmodern context

116

(4)

Researching into mothers' violence: some thoughts on the process

120

(16)

Brid Featherstone

Introduction

120

(1)

A suitable topic for a feminist?

121

(3)

A question of method

124

(2)

Topic suitability

126

(4)

Analysing data

130

(2)

A word on the fit between theory and method

132

(2)

Conclusion

134

(2)

Researching profeminist men's narratives: participatory methodologies in a postmodern frame

136

(23)

Bob Pease

Introduction

136

(1)

Rethinking feminist standpoint theory

137

(3)

The possibility of profeminist men's standpoints

140

(2)

Participatory approaches to research

142

(2)

Consciousness-raising as research

144

(3)

Collective memory-work

147

(3)

Sociological interventions in masculinity politics

150

(3)

Making sense of profeminism for men

153

(1)

Conclusion

154

(5)

For ever beyond

159

(17)

Lindsey Napier

Introduction

159

(3)

Certainty

162

(2)

Competing certainties

164

(2)

Subjectivity

166

(3)

Normality

169

(1)

Contingency

169

(1)

Professional practice knowledge

170

(1)

Body work

171

(1)

Places for dying

172

(1)

Beyond my grasp?

173

(3)

Feminist postmodernism in the South African context

176

(16)

Vivienne Bozalek

Introduction

176

(1)

South African social work

177

(1)

The use of difference in South African welfare policy

178

(8)

Problems and potentials of feminist postmodern perspectives in the South African context

186

(6)

Index

192

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Practice and Research in Social Work: Postmodern Feminist Perspectives

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