Reconceptualization of empowerment

Reconceptualization of empowerment

1. social work definitions of empowerment

   • intervention and product
   • process
   • skill

2. old concepts such as traditional, feminist, postmoderm feminist, essencialism have many problems

   • giving victim perspective
   • ignoring or exclusively emphasizing relatedness
   • strenghts are neglected
   • false homogenization
   • and many others

3. in a relationship with old women

4. Browne concept

   • values of connection and relatedness
     • ability to identify a value of it
     • natural nurturers = both the strenght and a source of oppresion
     • group empowerment
   • community and the collective good
     • re-evaluation of the causes
     • emphasise of it
   • reality of social power
     • acknowledgement of gender hierarchy, social inequality throughout their life cycles
     • cannot ignore economic and health realities