Feminist social work has clear goals to expose and critically analyse gendered power as a dynamic, historic, and structural concept embedded in our world, and to mobilise and take social action to challenge that power. This is integral to a commitment to the core values of the social work profession, which include a commitment to human rights, social justice and professional integrity. This edited collection brings a range of academic and practitioner scholarship to centre feminist theories, values and knowledge as they apply to social work practice, theory and education. It engages with feminist thinking to re-emphasise and refocus the centrality of gender and its intersections with other axes of identities such as social class, race, disability, sexuality and age, for understanding and analysing social work practice. This collection is a timely reminder of what feminist inquiry has to offer social work to successfully address contemporary challenges and is applicable to practitioners, scholars, educators, students and other key care professionals and policy makers.

Focuses on social work practice through the lens of gender

1. Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice.- Part I: Feminist Theories for New Challenges in Social Work.- 2. Feminisms: Controversy, Contestation and Challenge.- 3. Feminist and Empowerment Theory and Practice: A Powerful Alliance.- 4. Feminist Research and Practice: Reorienting a Politic for Social Work.- 5. A Pedagogy of Our Own: Feminist Social Work in the Academy.- 6. Collaborative Autoethnography for Feminist Research.- Part II: Feminisms and Intersectionalities.- 7. Afrocentric Feminism and Ubuntu-Led Social Work Practice in an African Context.- 8. Tears of Shame: Sri Lankan Mothers Negotiating Experiences of Caregiving and Disability.- 9. Voices of Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan Living with Exacerbated Gender-Based Violence During COVID-19: Conceptualizing a Feminist Perspective for Social Work.- 10. The Transformative Potential of Transfeminist Social Work Practice.- 11. Exploring the Intersection of Queer Disability as Life Story: A Feminist Narrative Approach to Social Work Research and Practice.- 12. Invisible Women: Critical Perspectives on Social Work and Gender in Later Life.- Part III: Gender in Social Work Practice.- 13. Using Sex Worker Feminisms in Practice to Promote a Peer-Based Methodology; Exploring Personal and Professional Identities in a Research Alliance Centring Sex Worker Lived Experience.- 14. Does Feminist Social Work Practice Need Time? Gender, Parenting and Changing Times for Social Work.- 15. Lesbian Parenting: Rebellious or Conformist?.- 16. Child Sexual Exploitation, Victim Blaming or Rescuing: Negotiating a Feminist Perspective on the Way Forward.- 17. Social Work Men as a Feminist Issue.- 18. A Relational Approach to Work with Couples Where Men Have Been Violent Towards Women: Feminist Dilemmas and Contributions to Social Work Practice.- 19. Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Leadership.