FEMINIST APPROACH

Feminist approach

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Mary

Sojourner

Susan

Wollstonecraft

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KEY TERMINOLOGIES: > Feminism- is someone who supports equal rights for women. > Discrimination- the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age or sexual orientation. > Oppression- the social act of placing severe restrictions on an individual group, or institution. Typically, a government or political organization in power places restrictions formally or covertly on oppressed groups so they may be exploited and less able to compete with other social groups. > Empowerment- involves using intervention methods to guide people toward achieving a sense of control. It centers on helping marginalized people at individual, group and community levels gain the personal, interpersonal and political power to improve their lives. > Human rights- are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. They apply regardless of where you are from, what you believe or how you choose to live your life.

Feminist Movement Waves and Primary Foci from the United States

THIRD WAVE

FIRST WAVE

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1960s-1980s

2013-Present

19th-20th century

1990s-2010

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SECOND WAVE

FOURTH WAVE

> Work has been done to develop feminist models of group work, and these are relevant to empowerment objectives (Garvin & Reed, 1995). > Feminist group work models draw on feminist theories that deal with how societies deny power to women as compared with men, how the needs and views of women are not represented in social work models, and how many concepts are "gendered" in the sense that women are depreciated, often subtly, by theories and terms that are widely employed. > Feminist group work models identify ways in which numbers of groups are oppressed because of their gender and how workers and members can help each other identify and seek to change the sources of such oppression.

> The feminist approach requires supporting the voice, agency and empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity and others who face discrimination or marginalization. It also requires holding accountable powerful actors such as duty-bearers and responsibility-holders for their human rights obligations and responsibilities to rebalance the distribution of power and achieve just and inclusive societies. > The feminist approach values diversity and inclusion as essential assets for achieving transformative change and sustainable development and responds to lived experiences by taking into account intersectional dimensions of discrimination and inequality. Such an approach creates space for advocacy and dialogue, builds alliances in pursuit of common objectives and meets international human rights obligations.

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REFERENCES: https://oxfordre.com/socialwork/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.001.0001/acrefore-9780199975839-e-151 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12252754_Group_work_is_political_work_A_feminist_perspective_of_interpersonal_group_psychotherapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_theory https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/human-rights/what-are-human-rights