Rethinking Empowerment Theory Using a Feminist Lens: The Importance of Process
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- 1 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Affilia
- Vol. 18 (1) , 8-20
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109902239092
Abstract
This article highlights the importance of social, historical, and political context when theorizing empowerment and “maps” empowerment as a cyclical, rather than a linear, process. Synthesizing important perspectives in feminist thought and empowerment theory, it proposes understandings of positionality, conscientization, and social transformation that are meant to inform empowerment-oriented, feminist social work practice.Keywords
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