Naomi Gottlieb

Strategies for Strengthening Feminist Research

Social work research, like all research in the social sciences, has been challenged by feminist scholars. Alternative research methods proposed by feminists, however, contain their own inherent dilemmas that need to be addressed. This article summarizes the historical dynamics of feminist research, identifies key issues that pose problems for the development of knowledge, and proposes self-correcting measures for strengthening future feminist research.

Women's Achievement of Empowerment through Activism in the Workplace

In social work, workplace activism has been overlooked as a source of empowerment for women clients. This article reports on the results of a case study of a predominantly female union engaged in grass-roots organizing and legislative activity to promote comparable worth. An unanticipated finding of the study was the high degree to which personal, interpersonal, and political empowerment took place among the women who were deeply involved in the campaign for comparable worth. Social workers need to be more aware of the potential that workplace organizing and political action offer for the empowerment of their women clients.

Book Reviews : Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue. By Gail B. Griffin. Pasadena, CA: Trilogy Books, 1992, 253 pp.,

did not respond directly to criticism. For example, Mary E Koss declined to respond to Neil Gilbert’s serious allegation that she suppressed politically unacceptable aspects of her data. If the editors failed to make Gilbert’s criticism available to Koss, they did Koss a disservice; however, if Koss chose not to respond to Gilbert, she did herself a disservice in not using the opportunity to defend herself.

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Preserving abortion rights is again a top priority as a consequence of the 1989 Supreme Court decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. That decision returned to the individual states authority to restrict abortions in significant ways. By the time you read this, other restrictive decisions may well have been handed down. In this issue, the members of the editorial board of AFFILIA share their

On the Bias

Although such critiques of social work practice and education as The Woman Client offer useful explanations for the individual and institutional discrimination suffered by women, solutions for correcting distortions in the lives of clients are not given as much attention, perhaps because they are not, as yet, available. The skyrocketing acceleration in the rate of social change has resulted in serious dislocations for women. In this &dquo;postfeminist&dquo; period, in which dilemmas and contradictions surround women in a basic survival