Pub Date : 2022-11-25DOI: 10.1177/08861099221142039
Sandra M. Leotti
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Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1177/08861099221133378
B. L. Simon
This microhistory is a study of one woman's efforts in New York City between 1907 and 1911 to join the efforts of three local feminist organizations—Greenwich House, the National Consumers League, and the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)—that were combining the energies of women from the industrial working class, middle class, and upper class in sustained drives to improve the working conditions and wages of women factory and steam laundry workers. One woman who devoted herself to these three organizational cross-class initiatives was Carola Woerishoffer (1885–1911). Microhistory is a method of studying the past that makes use of remnants of evidence still available about people, organizations, or communities that have been partially or completely forgotten.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.1177/08861099221137719
Samantha Leonard
{"title":"Book Review: The Politics of Surviving: How women navigate domestic violence and its aftermath by Paige L. Sweet","authors":"Samantha Leonard","doi":"10.1177/08861099221137719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099221137719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47277,"journal":{"name":"Affilia-Feminist Inquiry in Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47413104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-06DOI: 10.1177/08861099221133373
R. Welch, Rong Zhao
This article engages with the field of social work's role in humanitarian and criminal legal responses to sex work in the United States over the last century. Our historical review reveals that, through interdisciplinary collaboration in the criminalization and rehabilitation of sex workers, social workers have contributed to the transformation of “prostitution” from an issue of sex workers’ rights to a psychological, criminal legal, and medical phenomenon. This has exacerbated the harm and stigma experienced by sex workers. In exploring social work interventions on sex work from the Progressive Era through the rise of neoliberalism, this article places its modern iteration, prostitution diversion programming, within the context of social work's carceral history with sex workers. We choose these periods not for their chronicity, but rather for the salient themes in these historical interventions that characterize modern diversion programming: power and control, punitive service provision, patriarchal rescue, and carceral feminism. To align with social work's mandate for social justice and client self-determination, this article offers policy and practice implications grounded in the decriminalization of sex work and divestment from the police and courts. Alternative service approaches spearheaded by sex workers are explored and placed within the context of labor, racial, gender, and immigration justice.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1177/08861099221102702
Christine Mayor
Largely absent from the feminist qualitative social work research literature are practical discussions about the ethics of white researchers who “study up” people and institutions of power. This methodological article grapples with how to conduct data collection from an anti-racist framework. I explore my use of an arts-based self-reflexive memoing process of embodied tableaux to inform my experimentations of rejecting “neutrality” when interviewing participants. I provide examples of disrupting white, patriarchal, and colonial norms during qualitative interviewing, including directly naming my whiteness and anti-racist stance; intentionally challenging the racism of white participants and deepening critical reflection; and viewing myself through a lens of critical skepticism to recognize when I was protecting whiteness or failing to effectively intervene. I conclude with an invitation to others to experiment with an anti-racist research praxis—an iterative process of self-reflexivity and relational accountability to reflect, theorize, and act differently during feminist social work research.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-09DOI: 10.1177/08861099221130337
Afnan Attrash-Najjar, Einat Lavee, A. Wilkis, Roni Strier
Lone-mother–headed families are key targets of poverty research and financial coaching training programs worldwide. Yet, despite the centrality of this population in poverty studies, there is little research on how this population construes the meaning of money in developed economies. This article focuses on the social construction of money among low-income lone mothers in Israel—a highly market-oriented, neoliberal economy. Based on a qualitative analysis, the study found five main representations of money: survival money, motherhood money, earned money, coping money, and resistance to dominant views of money. Our findings confirm the notion that money exists outside the sphere of the market and has contextualized meanings reflecting gender as well as cultural and social structures.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1177/08861099221129626
Gloria Lucena Fernández
Taking a feminist and intersectional approach, this article conducts a socio-political analysis of the traditional paradigms of disability through an ethnographic study of the life histories of women with functional diversity (FD). In Spain, the term “people with functional diversity” has emerged as a preferred denomination for many, if not all, people and entities working in this field because it emphasizes the contribution of people with FD to society. Based on interviews with six study participants, the analysis examines these women's discourses and the different ways that they deconstruct traditional models of disability and ableism and the patriarchal and capitalist social categories that constrain them in positions of inequality and oppression. In particular, the analysis centers on the different ways of “being” a woman with FD and the transformative capacity of agency in overturning traditional representations in favor of plurality and inclusiveness. By challenging marginalized social categories, the women claim ownership of their bodies and sexuality and also open routes to social resources. Nevertheless, the research also shows that these resistances often took place at an individual rather than a collective level. Hence, while emphasizing the agentive capacity of the participants, the study shows how each of their biographies is framed within a socio-political context. This research makes an important contribution to the theory and practice of social work as it questions the traditional categories of FD and brings us closer to the lived experiences and practices of the study participants.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-28DOI: 10.1177/08861099221130085
Henrika McCoy
“Queer Performativity: Henry James’ Art of the Novel,” which first guided Love to an in-depth study of Erving Goffman’s Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Love also examines Laud Humphrey’s Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places, which would violate many of the best practices of today’s Institutional Review Boards. Love notes that one of Goffman’s main contributions to queer theory is that the marginalization of homosexuals is the result of social constructs rather than innate unnatural desires, a contribution that has influenced Eve Sedgwick, Judith Butler, and other queer theorists who understand queer identity as performance. Although sometimes difficult to absorb, this book has important implications for social work and social work education. First, it is important to find common ground in scholarship and advocacy. For example, Love notes that there is not just a crisis within the humanities, but there is a crisis within higher education in general. Second, it is important to do coalition building without enforcing false universalisms, equivalences, and imperialism. Finally, Love raises but does not address, the question of whether stigma can have a transformational effect. This question may be best addressed by those in the field of social work and social work education, those grounded in both theory and praxis, and those working inside and outside of the academy.
{"title":"Book Review: Roots of racism: The politics of White supremacy in the US and Europe","authors":"Henrika McCoy","doi":"10.1177/08861099221130085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099221130085","url":null,"abstract":"“Queer Performativity: Henry James’ Art of the Novel,” which first guided Love to an in-depth study of Erving Goffman’s Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Love also examines Laud Humphrey’s Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places, which would violate many of the best practices of today’s Institutional Review Boards. Love notes that one of Goffman’s main contributions to queer theory is that the marginalization of homosexuals is the result of social constructs rather than innate unnatural desires, a contribution that has influenced Eve Sedgwick, Judith Butler, and other queer theorists who understand queer identity as performance. Although sometimes difficult to absorb, this book has important implications for social work and social work education. First, it is important to find common ground in scholarship and advocacy. For example, Love notes that there is not just a crisis within the humanities, but there is a crisis within higher education in general. Second, it is important to do coalition building without enforcing false universalisms, equivalences, and imperialism. Finally, Love raises but does not address, the question of whether stigma can have a transformational effect. This question may be best addressed by those in the field of social work and social work education, those grounded in both theory and praxis, and those working inside and outside of the academy.","PeriodicalId":47277,"journal":{"name":"Affilia-Feminist Inquiry in Social Work","volume":"38 1","pages":"326 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46128268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-25DOI: 10.1177/08861099221126975
Abeer Otman
Bereaved fathers dealing with political loss provide an under-examined experience of living with unbearable pain. Drawing on an anti-colonial feminist framework, this article analyzes the written and visualized pain of bereaved Palestinian fathers posted on Facebook. This study approaches cyberspace as a meaningful site for theorizing the suffering of a people living under state violence. I focus on three portraits shared by fathers, which include texts, photos, e-comments, and e-interpretations. By considering the narratives and reactions evoked by these portraits, this study reveals complex transformations of individual and collective pain, loss, and grief. The study further suggests that visualizing fathers’ pain on social media provides a space for fathers to navigate trauma. They achieve this by traversing traumatic confusion into a state of survival and agency while challenging structures of dehumanization, dispossession, and death.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-13DOI: 10.1177/08861099221126211
Sara Goodkind, S. Harrell, J. Zelnick, Mimi E. Kim
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