Description:
Working With Men is a controversial collection of essays written by feminists
about men. In what has previously been an unexplored area of social work
the contributors explore the issue of feminist work with men, highlighting the
dilemmas which they have encountered in undertaking this work and
concluding that feminist social work practice must include direct work with
men as part of a broader strategy whose ultimate goal is the empowerment
of women.
The book begins by acknowledging the contradictions inherent in feminism
and identifies the experiences of the contributors and the assumptions which
unite them. Following on from a discussion which explores the relationship
between the growing literature on masculinities and developments in social
work practice, each of the contributors describes her own experience of
working with men