Empowering Women of Color

by Lorraine Gutiérrez, Edith Lewis

Overview

This is the first textbook to address the specific but polymorphous needs of women of color. With the help of guest authors, Gutierrez and Lewis provide an excellent framework through which social workers can more effectively aid women of color in their ongoing struggle against systemic oppression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231101172
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	06/25/1999
Series:	Empowering the Powerless: A Social Work Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lorraine Gutiérrez is an associate professor with the School of Social Work and Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

Edith Lewis is an associate professor of social work and women's studies at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Preface
Part 1: The Empowerment Approach to Practice
1. Empowerment: A Model for Practice
2. Empowerment Techniques: Engagement and Assessment
3. Empowerment Techniques: Practice with Individuals
4. Empowerment Techniques: Practice with Families
5. Empowerment Techniques: Practice with Groups
6. Bringing an Empowerment Perspective into Organizational Practice
7. Empowerment Techniques: Practice with Communities
8. Endings: Evaluation and Termination
Part 2: Understanding Women of Color
9. The Sharing of Power: Empowerment with Native American Women, by Christine T. Lowery
10. Staying the Path: Lessons about Health and Resistance from Women of the African Diaspora in the United States, by Edith Lewis
11. Empowerment with Latinas, by Lorraine Gutirrez and Zulema Suarez
12. Empowerment: Asian-American Women's Perspectives, by Gwat-Yong Lie
13. Empowering Lesbian and Bisexual Women of Color: Overcoming Three Forms of Oppression, by Larry Icard, Teresa Jones, and Stephanie Wahab
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

The editors provide the conceptual and practical basis of an empowering model for social work practice to help women of color gain personal, interpersonal, and political power. Contributors to the books's second half, "Understanding Women of Color," place each women-of-color grouping (including the lesbian and bisexual) in its sociohistorical context, and include case examples and an empowerment perspective on the specific population. A concept learned from the Latina community: , developing a personal relationship and understanding before beginning work. Paper edition 0-231-10117-1) $25 Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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