This researcher conducted her study from a radical feminist/constructivism perspective while examining the professional orientations of staff working in New Jersey Battered Women Shelters. The data was placed on a scale ...

Multistate, secondary analysis research regarding experiences of welfare mothers---the main targets of the 1996 welfare reform legislation (TANF)---of factors that have aided or hindered their efforts to comply with the ...

The goal of this research is to understand the attitudes, and values of the professional groups that mobilized the domestic violence cause through the legal system. Three factors will be explored in order to understand the ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the educational experiences of White women and women of color who completed their social work doctoral studies between 1990 and 2003. This study followed an exploratory and explanatory ...

The life and work of Bertha C. Reynolds (1885-1978), a pioneer social work leader, writer, and teacher, is the subject of the study. An outspoken radical, the former Associate Director of the Smith College School of Social ...

This study examines the responses of the four branches of American Judaism to religious feminism. It traces the history of each denomination and assesses the evolution of religious feminism within each of the Reform, ...

This study examined how social workers and other helping professionals viewed the problem of domestic or partner violence prior to the passing of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and subsequent to its passing. The ...

This qualitative study with quantitative components examined successful aging among a sub-population of older Latinas. Data were collected from twenty community-dwelling Puerto Rican women, age 65--89 years old, in New ...

Attitudes toward menopausal aging were examined in a sample of 1,037 baby-boomer women who took part in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) survey. Attitudes toward menopausal aging were assessed in terms of four ...

This quantitative-descriptive study examined the relationship between adjustment to breast cancer and types of perceived social support. One hundred socioeconomically disadvantaged black women, fifty at three months, and ...