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Demonstrates how feminist visions can help social workers provide more holistic, ecological, and prevention-oriented services. An essential text for practitioners, educators and students.

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A compilation of 15 articles by feminist social workers, predominantly social work educators. The editors introduce the subject by defining feminism (``feminism is concerned with ending domination and resisting oppression,'' p.1). They identify five feminist principles specifically relevant to social work practice and education. The five principles are: (1) elimination of false dichotomies and artificial separations; (2) reconceptualization of power; (3) valuation of the process as much as the product; (4) validation of renaming; (5) belief that the personal is political. These principles are addressed in many of the articles, and cover topics such as work with specific populations, work with men, methods of practice, and fields of practice. Joan Cummerton's article contains useful analysis of research methodology employing traditional, nonsexist, and feminist perspectives. Diane Goldstein Wicker's article puts emphasis on the need for educators to become aware of their own racist attitudes through personal work to eliminate racist emotions. Each readable article is followed by extensive footnotes that could constitute an excellent bibliography of relevant literature. Social work libraries, libraries on feminism, and libraries for human service workers should own this work. Community college level up.-E.L. Pinner, University of Connecticut