Social Work: Application of Feminist Theory and Learning Theories

This essay delves into feminist theory, outlining its core principles of upsurging equality and expanding human choice. It examines different types of feminism, including liberal, social, and radical feminism, and provides case studies illustrating the theory's application in workplace equity, reproductive rights, and cultural contexts. The essay also touches on the influence of learning theories in social work practice, particularly in areas such as working with individuals with learning difficulties, offenders, and those experiencing depression, highlighting the role of cognitive behavior therapy. The document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a range of study tools and solved assignments for students.

Feministic Theory
In Practice

A range of political ideologies or movement which is
based on the social movement. This share a unified
objective to define political economic and social issue.
Charles Fourier is credited for making the “feminism”
in 1937
Appeared in France and Netherland first
United Staes in 1910

PRINCIPLES OF FEMINISM
WORKING TO
UPSURGE QUALITY :
This understood is
linked to the action and
is insisted on what
should be pushed and
changed towards the
equality of the gender.
Expanding human
choice : Equally men
and women are equal
and therefore they
should have the
freedom to choice and
in the talents and in the
status quo

Elimination of gender
stratification : The feminist
oppose the laws and the
culture that limits the income
as well as instructive besides
job security for the womenfolk
Culmination sexual violence
besides promotion of the
sexual liberty : they should
have switch over the sexuality
and the imitation.
Continued

Types of feminism
Liberal Feminism
This is an individualistic type of
feminism which is based on the feminist
theory and it emphases on the capability
of the womankind to uphold their
equality through their choice of action
It contends that the society clutches
untruthful believe that women folk are
by nature is less intelligently and bodily
accomplished than the man

Social Feminism
It emphases upon both the public and the
secluded spheres of the life of female
which contends that deliverance can only
be attained by working to the end in
financial and traditional sources of
oppression of women (McLaughlin, 2014).

Radical Feminism
Radical feminism is a
viewpoint which
focuses within the
feminism and demands
for the fundamental
alteration in order for
the radical recording of
the society to maintain
all the social
context( Mackay,2015).

Case Study
The feminist theory have been used in the
workplace equity and also to bring about a
reproductive rights in the cultural constriction of
the gender as well as patriarchal; oppression in
order to recognize the previous iteration in terms
of feminism
This theory also lends to credits in the notion for
the improvement and also in the admission
process that is changing the position and make
credence in the notion of the improvement. This
is a gender based and also race based in the
medical training as well.

Case Study
It has been also
observed that it
acknowledges the
limitation and scientific
knowledge.
The post colonial
feminist theory has been
the cultural hegemony
and the anti racist
effect. The feminist
theory has allowed the
clinicians and the
educators to move from

References
Carastathis, A. (2014). The concept of intersectionality
in feminist theory. Philosophy Compass, 9(5), 304-
314.
Weir, A. (2014). Sacrificial logics: Feminist theory and
the critique of identity. Routledge.
Mackay, F. (2015). Radical feminism: Feminist activism
in movement. Springer.
McLaughlin, J. (2014). Feminist social and political
theory: Contemporary debates and dialogues.
Palgrave Macmillan.