1. Postmodern critical theory and emancipatory social work practice / Bob Pease and Jan Fook -- pt. I. Deconstructing the professional and organisational context of social work. 2. Social work and its search for meaning : Theories, narratives and practices / Peter Camilleri. 3. The organisation of social work in the customer culture / Gary Hough -- pt. II. Dealing with diversity and difference. 4. Social work ethics : Embracing diversity? / Linda Briskman and Carolyn Noble. 5. Challenging victimisation in practice with young women / Karen Crinall. 6. Offending mothers : Theorising in a feminist minefield / Lee FitzRoy. 7. Deconstructing masculinity -- reconstructing men / Bob Pease -- pt. III. Rethinking critical practice. 8. Power and activist social work / Karen Healy. 9. Community development and a postmodernism of resistance / Mary Lane. 10. Empowerment : The modern social work concept par excellence / Stephen Parker, Jan Fook and Bob Pease.
Summary
Offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory.