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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- Copyright © by SAGE Publications
- ISSN
- 0886-1099
- eISSN
- 1552-3020
- DOI
- 10.1177/0886109907306352
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
396 Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work It is a history well known to feminist scholars and therapists. Included in the book are anecdotes that add a dimension of familiarity with these women and their colleagues. In a sense, the biographical material acts as a parallel process to the theory. When we know more about each other in authentic and affective ways, we are likely to relate more fully. This is true in our roles as readers and therapists and certainly as women. What is missing for this reader is the social work voice. This paradigm has a natural fit with the values and principles of the social work profession, yet that perspective is strikingly silent. Part of Robb’s reporting (she has spent 20 years as an award-winning writer for the Boston Globe) stresses the political aspect of the resistance to this paradigm. Embracing it means to support a shift from a “power over,” male-dominated worldview to a connected, empathic, “power with” way of experiencing life. This “power over” model has been reinforced by rape, incest, isolation, and other cultural norms and behaviors, as Jean Baker Miller’s (1976) early work, exemplified in her book Toward A New Psychology
Journal
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE
Published: Nov 1, 2007