Mary E Swigonski
Biographic Data
| ID | 5942427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary E Swigonski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary E |
| FAMILY NAME | Swigonski |
| SIGNATURE | SWIGONSKI M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monmouth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Feminist Contributions to Understanding Women’s Lives and the Social Environment
This article traces the tides of three waves of feminism that have flowed within the United States and highlights the critical contributions of theoretical insights from these waves to expand and enhance social workers’ understanding of the lives of women and the social environment. In particular, the article highlights the specific contributions of a set of core concepts (gender, care, power, difference, and diversity) that emerged within femini…
Caregiving for the Elderly
The Gift of Winter Wheat
As Feminists in the Academy
Women, War, and Peace Building
Human Rights, Hate Crimes, and Hebrew-Christian Scripture
This article seeks to contribute to a culture of human rights by challenging the use of Hebrew and Christian scriptures to characterize LGBT2 persons as moral transgressors and to justify or rationalize hate crimes against them. Scriptural passages used to support claims of immorality of LGBT2 persons—texts of terror—are examined. Then scriptural passages that are affirming of LGBT2 relationships—texts of empowerment—are considered. The author di…
Women, Poverty, and Welfare Reform
Social workers can work more effectively for welfare reform by building on an analytical framework that includes compassion and justice. This framework is based on an understanding of the lives of mothers with low or no incomes and an examination of the distribution of income and wealth within the context of a comprehensive definition of welfare
Challenging Privilege through Africentric Social Work Practice
Privilege refers to the unearned advantages enjoyed by a particular group simply because of membership in that group. Privileges accrue to those who (consciously or not) oppress others and are generally invisible to those who enjoy them. In seeing reality from the standpoint of other groups, one acquires the vantage point necessary to see privilege and its effects. Africentric theory describes the ethos and values of Africans and African American…
The Social Service Needs of Lesbians of Color
The social service needs of lesbians of color are complex because of multiple oppressions. Their needs are ambiguous because the coping abilities of many lesbians of color can mask those needs. This article reports the findings of an exploratory study of social workers' perceptions of the social service needs of lesbians of color. The findings of that study are analyzed from the standpoint of lesbians of color as articulated within their writing.…
For the White Social Worker Who Wants to Know how to Work with Lesbians of Color
This article challenges white social workers who want to work effectively with lesbians of color to identify the patterns of privilege and to step outside of those patterns. Three layers of competence for patience with lesbians of color are described: awareness, knowledge, and skill. Awareness includes attitudes related to racism, sexism, heterosexism, and homophobia. Knowledge about lesbians of color is developed from their standpoint. Skills in…
Claiming a Lesbian Identity as an Act of Empowerment
Claiming a lesbian identity in a heterosexist culture is an act of empowerment in the struggle against oppression. This article dis cusses both the nature of the oppression that lesbians face and the strengths and skills that lesbians demonstrate in constructing the unique components of their lesbian identity
Feminist Standpoint Theory and the Questions of Social Work Research
This article presents feminist standpoint theory as an alternative epistemology for social work research—an alternative theory of what makes knowledge possible and how to get it—and discusses the outcomes and consequences of a research so transformed. Three issues raised by standpoint theory are used to refocus the questions of social work research: What is the base of the research? What is the purpose of the research? How does this project incor…
Challenging Privilege through Africentric Social Work Practice
Privilege refers to the unearned advantages enjoyed by a particular group simply because of membership in that group. Privileges accrue to those who (consciously or not) oppress others and are generally invisible to those who enjoy them. In seeing reality from the standpoint of other groups, one acquires the vantage point necessary to see privilege and its effects. Africentric theory describes the ethos and values of Africans and African American…
Feminist Standpoint Theory and the Questions of Social Work Research
This article presents feminist standpoint theory as an alternative epistemology for social work research—an alternative theory of what makes knowledge possible and how to get it—and discusses the outcomes and consequences of a research so transformed. Three issues raised by standpoint theory are used to refocus the questions of social work research: What is the base of the research? What is the purpose of the research? How does this project incor…
Women, Poverty, and Welfare Reform
Social workers can work more effectively for welfare reform by building on an analytical framework that includes compassion and justice. This framework is based on an understanding of the lives of mothers with low or no incomes and an examination of the distribution of income and wealth within the context of a comprehensive definition of welfare
Feminist Contributions to Understanding Women’s Lives and the Social Environment
This article traces the tides of three waves of feminism that have flowed within the United States and highlights the critical contributions of theoretical insights from these waves to expand and enhance social workers’ understanding of the lives of women and the social environment. In particular, the article highlights the specific contributions of a set of core concepts (gender, care, power, difference, and diversity) that emerged within femini…
The Social Service Needs of Lesbians of Color
The social service needs of lesbians of color are complex because of multiple oppressions. Their needs are ambiguous because the coping abilities of many lesbians of color can mask those needs. This article reports the findings of an exploratory study of social workers' perceptions of the social service needs of lesbians of color. The findings of that study are analyzed from the standpoint of lesbians of color as articulated within their writing.…
Human Rights, Hate Crimes, and Hebrew-Christian Scripture
This article seeks to contribute to a culture of human rights by challenging the use of Hebrew and Christian scriptures to characterize LGBT2 persons as moral transgressors and to justify or rationalize hate crimes against them. Scriptural passages used to support claims of immorality of LGBT2 persons—texts of terror—are examined. Then scriptural passages that are affirming of LGBT2 relationships—texts of empowerment—are considered. The author di…
Claiming a Lesbian Identity as an Act of Empowerment
Claiming a lesbian identity in a heterosexist culture is an act of empowerment in the struggle against oppression. This article dis cusses both the nature of the oppression that lesbians face and the strengths and skills that lesbians demonstrate in constructing the unique components of their lesbian identity
Feminist Standpoint Theory and the Questions of Social Work Research
This article presents feminist standpoint theory as an alternative epistemology for social work research—an alternative theory of what makes knowledge possible and how to get it—and discusses the outcomes and consequences of a research so transformed. Three issues raised by standpoint theory are used to refocus the questions of social work research: What is the base of the research? What is the purpose of the research? How does this project incor…
The Social Service Needs of Lesbians of Color
The social service needs of lesbians of color are complex because of multiple oppressions. Their needs are ambiguous because the coping abilities of many lesbians of color can mask those needs. This article reports the findings of an exploratory study of social workers' perceptions of the social service needs of lesbians of color. The findings of that study are analyzed from the standpoint of lesbians of color as articulated within their writing.…
For the White Social Worker Who Wants to Know how to Work with Lesbians of Color
This article challenges white social workers who want to work effectively with lesbians of color to identify the patterns of privilege and to step outside of those patterns. Three layers of competence for patience with lesbians of color are described: awareness, knowledge, and skill. Awareness includes attitudes related to racism, sexism, heterosexism, and homophobia. Knowledge about lesbians of color is developed from their standpoint. Skills in…
Claiming a Lesbian Identity as an Act of Empowerment
Claiming a lesbian identity in a heterosexist culture is an act of empowerment in the struggle against oppression. This article dis cusses both the nature of the oppression that lesbians face and the strengths and skills that lesbians demonstrate in constructing the unique components of their lesbian identity
Women, Poverty, and Welfare Reform
Social workers can work more effectively for welfare reform by building on an analytical framework that includes compassion and justice. This framework is based on an understanding of the lives of mothers with low or no incomes and an examination of the distribution of income and wealth within the context of a comprehensive definition of welfare
Challenging Privilege through Africentric Social Work Practice
Privilege refers to the unearned advantages enjoyed by a particular group simply because of membership in that group. Privileges accrue to those who (consciously or not) oppress others and are generally invisible to those who enjoy them. In seeing reality from the standpoint of other groups, one acquires the vantage point necessary to see privilege and its effects. Africentric theory describes the ethos and values of Africans and African American…
Human Rights, Hate Crimes, and Hebrew-Christian Scripture
This article seeks to contribute to a culture of human rights by challenging the use of Hebrew and Christian scriptures to characterize LGBT2 persons as moral transgressors and to justify or rationalize hate crimes against them. Scriptural passages used to support claims of immorality of LGBT2 persons—texts of terror—are examined. Then scriptural passages that are affirming of LGBT2 relationships—texts of empowerment—are considered. The author di…
As Feminists in the Academy
Women, War, and Peace Building
The Gift of Winter Wheat
Caregiving for the Elderly
Feminist Contributions to Understanding Women’s Lives and the Social Environment
This article traces the tides of three waves of feminism that have flowed within the United States and highlights the critical contributions of theoretical insights from these waves to expand and enhance social workers’ understanding of the lives of women and the social environment. In particular, the article highlights the specific contributions of a set of core concepts (gender, care, power, difference, and diversity) that emerged within femini…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Politics (4 works)