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This article explores the interlocking historical trajectories of feminisms and the social work profession in the United States. Bringing these two histories together, the article examines the ideas, practices, and people that have shaped the complicated organism that is ''feminist social work,'' from the civic involvement of 19th-and early 20th-century women to 21st-century efforts to craft more global, fluid, and inclusive feminist theories and practices. Structured around the three ''waves'' of feminist activism and theory building, it focuses in particular on changes and continuities in U.S. feminist social work theorizing.

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(hardbound).This memoir of the women's movement, arguably one of the most successful social movements of the 20th century, is a valuable resource for teaching about social movements and social change. The author, who was prominent in the second wave of the women's movement, offers a well-written, honest, and insightful memoir of how the women's movement started, emanating from women's anger with their male colleagues in the New Left of the 1960s who ignored women's oppression. She then describes conflicts among various factions of the women's movement and the movement's development over 2 decades. Anyone who has been involved in a social movement will recognize the personality conflicts, schisms, and counterproductive, dysfunctional aspects of political organizing, along with the euphoria of contributing to social change.In subsequent chapters, Brownmiller documents the spinoffs from the original women's movement, addressing legal abortion, rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and antipornography. Conflicts between lesbian and heterosexual women, women of color and White women, and liberal and radical feminists are all recalled through the lens of the author, who was an active participant in most of these conflicts. Of