Research Catalog

Title

Empowering women of color / [edited by] Lorraine M. Gutiérrez and Edith A. Lewis.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Gutiérrez, Lorraine M. (Lorraine Margot)
• Lewis, Edith Anne.

Description

xix, 272 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Empowering the powerless

Uniform Title

Empowering the powerless.

Subjects

• Minority women > Services for > United States
• Social work with women > United States
• Minority women > United States > Psychology
• Self-esteem in women > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. The Empowerment Approach to Practice. 1. Empowerment: A Model for Practice. 2. Empowerment Techniques: Engagement and Assessment. 3. Empowerment Techniques: Practice with Individuals. 4. Empowerment Techniques: Practice with Families. 5. Empowerment Techniques: Practice with Groups. 6. Bringing an Empowerment Perspective into Organizational Practice. 7. Empowerment Techniques: Practice with Communities. 8. Endings: Evaluation and Termination -- Pt. II. Understanding Women of Color. 9. The Sharing of Power: Empowerment with Native American Women / Christine T. Lowery. 10. Staying the Path: Lessons About Health and Resistance from Women of the African Diaspora in the United States / Edith Lewis. 11. Empowerment with Latinas / Lorraine Gutierrez and Zulema Suarez. 12. Empowerment: Asian-American Women's Perspectives / Gwat-Yong Lie. 13. Empowering Lesbian and Bisexual Women of Color: Overcoming Three Forms of Oppression / Larry Icard, Teresa Jones and Stephanie Wahab.

ISBN

• 0231101163 (alk. paper)
• 0231101171 (pbk.)

LCCN

98051518

OCLC

ocm40354840

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries