The Making of a Feminine Professional Identity: Social Workers in the 1920s

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

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“…Participants spoke of appreciating systemic ideas that they could put into practice in their role as social workers. Previous research into social work identity has explored this through the lenses of psychoanalysis, Foucauldian discourse analysis, gender identity and reflexive practice (Christie, ; Walkowitz, ). Social work has at times been constructed as a ‘doing’ rather than ‘thinking’ role, which has been critiqued by academics who stress that it is both (Matthias, 2015).…”

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Social work reframed? The experiences of social workers applying systemic ideas in child protection

Flynn

2019

Journal of Family Therapy

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The crossover between systemic psychotherapy and social work has received renewed attention in recent years. Expanding numbers of local authorities are commissioning systemic training and encouraging social workers to apply these ideas within the field of child protection. It is therefore vital and timely to listen to social workers’ experiences, in order to attain feedback on how this can best be achieved. This research study interviewed five case‐holding social workers in a London local authority child protection team about their experiences, and used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to analyse the data. This paper discusses two themes: ‘the importance of the organisation’ and ‘the process of applying learning’. Recommendations for improvements are made for academic and employment organisations from the research findings. The overall argument is that there is a significant opportunity for the field of systemic psychotherapy to learn from and improve the social work field, and vice versa. Practitioner points Organisational stability, clarity and commitment to systemic practice has a significant impact on social workers’ abilities to apply systemic ideas in their practice Social workers value being able to put systemic ideas into practice and learning the ‘doing’ of as well as the ‘thinking’ behind systemic practice Systemic psychotherapy has an opportunity to learn from its application to social work, particularly if applied to diverse workforces, who in turn work with diverse client groups

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Social work reframed? The experiences of social workers applying systemic ideas in child protection

Flynn

2019

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…22 It was characterized by the introduction of specialized training, university qualifications, accreditation and associational activities, which included the emergence of journals and other outlets for research that were increasingly framed as "scientific" in emphasis. 23 The shift from voluntarism to professionalization paradoxically limited and enlarged women's opportunities at the same time. Although it opened up many opportunities for intellectual work and leadership-and women such as Andrews, Follett and Wilson certainly experienced them as opportunities-it also created new barriers.…”

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Women's International Thought and the New Professions, 1900–1940

2019

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This article examines the “new professions” as alternative settings where women thought and wrote about the international. Presenting the case studies of Fannie Fern Andrews, Mary Parker Follett and Florence Wilson, it shows that, in emerging professional and disciplinary contexts that have hitherto lain beyond the purview of historians of international thought, these women developed their thinking about the international. The insights they derived from their practical work in schools, immigrant communities and libraries led them to emphasize the mechanics of participation in international affairs and caused them to think across the scales of the individual, the local group and relations between nations. By moving beyond the history of organizations and networks and instead looking for the professional settings and audiences which enabled women to theorize, this article shifts both established understandings of what counts as international thought and traditional conceptions of who counts as an international thinker.

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“…82-100). There was also, however, as other authors remind us, potential for unrealised ambitions compared with men in similar jobs (both professionally and economically), for tension with female volunteers working in the field, and for conflict for individual women as to their public work, and private domestic roles (Koven, 1993;Walkowitz, 1990Walkowitz, , pp. 1051.…”

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Family breakdown and the ‘Welfare Child’ in 19th and 20th century Britain

Levene

2006

The History of the Family

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This article traces new cycles of interest in past children as distinct from past childhood. Recent work highlighting that a conceptualisation of childhood existed even in periods with few written records closes the chapter begun by Philippe Ariès in 1960. Instead, there has been a new surge of interest in children on the edges of family life, as well as children in similarly liminal positions between the worlds of adults and children: runaways, delinquents and orphans. Several themes in the literature are identified, based on the conflicting ideas of 'body/mind', 'victim/threat', 'needs/rights'. It is noted that researchers are using more imaginative ways of reaching the lived experience of children than the family or institutional framework, and that an increasing link is drawn between historical and modern concerns such as child abuse and the care of 'at risk' children.

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The Making of a Feminine Professional Identity: Social Workers in the 1920s

Cited by 48 publications

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Social work reframed? The experiences of social workers applying systemic ideas in child protection

Social work reframed? The experiences of social workers applying systemic ideas in child protection

Women's International Thought and the New Professions, 1900–1940

Family breakdown and the ‘Welfare Child’ in 19th and 20th century Britain

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