caa a22 4500 477104991 CHVBK 20180405111551.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02189730 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02189730 Sands Roberta School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, 19104, Philadelphia, PA aut The elusiveness of identity in social work practice with women: A postmodern feminist perspective [Elektronische Daten] [Roberta Sands] During the 1980s, feminist literature proposed the existence of a silent, tongue-tied, "different” woman who craves to exercise her own voice. The more recent postmodern feminism raises questions about the existence of woman, self, and identity as categories, promoting instead the idea of multiple selves and multiple identities. This article visits the concept of "identity” and its partner "self” in psychological, feminist, and postmodern feminist literature and discusses why self/identity is problematic for women. An alternative narrative identity is proposed with narrative identity reconstruction integrated into clinical social work practice with women. A narrative excerpt from an interview illustrates the process. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1996 identity nationallicence feminist nationallicence postmodern nationallicence women nationallicence [#s] : Number of seconds of a pause nationallicence ′ : Partial pause nationallicence . : Full pause nationallicence ! : Animated nationallicence CAPITAL LETTERS : Emphasis nationallicence /?/ : Inaudible, unclear nationallicence = : Latched speaking nationallicence ] : Overlapping, simultaneous speech nationallicence - : Halting, hesitant speech nationallicence → : Line of text is continuous with line that follows nationallicence Clinical Social Work Journal Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 24/2(1996-06-01), 167-186 0091-1674 24:2<167 1996 24 10615 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02189730 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02189730 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sands Roberta School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, 19104, Philadelphia, PA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clinical Social Work Journal Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 24/2(1996-06-01), 167-186 0091-1674 24:2<167 1996 24 10615 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer