The elusiveness of identity in social work practice with women: A postmodern feminist perspective |
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Authors: | Roberta G. Sands Ph.D. |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, 19104 Philadelphia, PA |
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Abstract: | During the 1980s, feminist literature proposed the existence of a silent, tongue-tied, different woman who craves to exercise her own voice. The more recent postmodern feminism raises questions about the existence of woman, self, and identity as categories, promoting instead the idea of multiple selves and multiple identities. This article visits the concept of identity and its partner self in psychological, feminist, and postmodern feminist literature and discusses why self/identity is problematic for women. An alternative narrative identity is proposed with narrative identity reconstruction integrated into clinical social work practice with women. A narrative excerpt from an interview illustrates the process.Based on a paper presented at a program jointly sponsored by Loyola University of Chicago School of Social Work and The Institute for Clinical Social Work, May 19, 1995, Chicago, Illinois. |
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Keywords: | identity feminist postmodern women |
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