Revising McPhail’s Feminist Policy Analysis Framework
In 2003, McPhail published a Feminist Policy Analysis Framework concluding that the many available methods of policy analysis across disciplines, including social work, treated policies as gender-neutral compositions. McPhail (2003) asserted that these methods denied the many ways that institutions...
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Indiana University School of Social Work
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| description | In 2003, McPhail published a Feminist Policy Analysis Framework concluding that the many available methods of policy analysis across disciplines, including social work, treated policies as gender-neutral compositions. McPhail (2003) asserted that these methods denied the many ways that institutions and policies of society are organized by the concepts of gender, therefore presenting incomplete products of analysis. This guiding purpose for the development of McPhail’s (2003) Feminist Policy Analysis Framework endures a full fifteen years later. In the years since publication of McPhail’s Framework, advancements have been made in both feminist theory and in policy analysis methods. This conceptual article outlines a much-needed revision moving the framework into a contemporary position with the inclusion of a focus on privilege, oppression, and intersectionality. The revised framework presented herein is a more conceptually comprehensive and practical model for use by all, but particularly social work students and scholars. The revised model represents an update rendering it more effective in today’s polarized political climate as well as with the recently revised social work educational policy (Council on Social Work Education, 2015). A revised framework of Feminist Intersectional Policy Analysis is presented, including guiding questions and conceptual complexities to consider in the work of analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-02a4e88a649f4f6da7c555ea6d0be8542022-12-21T21:34:54ZengIndiana University School of Social WorkAdvances in Social Work1527-85652331-41252020-01-0119112210.18060/2263917165Revising McPhail’s Feminist Policy Analysis FrameworkHeather Kanenberg0Roberta Leal1Stephen "Arch" Erich2University of Houston-Clear LakeUniversity of Houston-Clear LakeUniversity of Houston-Clear LakeIn 2003, McPhail published a Feminist Policy Analysis Framework concluding that the many available methods of policy analysis across disciplines, including social work, treated policies as gender-neutral compositions. McPhail (2003) asserted that these methods denied the many ways that institutions and policies of society are organized by the concepts of gender, therefore presenting incomplete products of analysis. This guiding purpose for the development of McPhail’s (2003) Feminist Policy Analysis Framework endures a full fifteen years later. In the years since publication of McPhail’s Framework, advancements have been made in both feminist theory and in policy analysis methods. This conceptual article outlines a much-needed revision moving the framework into a contemporary position with the inclusion of a focus on privilege, oppression, and intersectionality. The revised framework presented herein is a more conceptually comprehensive and practical model for use by all, but particularly social work students and scholars. The revised model represents an update rendering it more effective in today’s polarized political climate as well as with the recently revised social work educational policy (Council on Social Work Education, 2015). A revised framework of Feminist Intersectional Policy Analysis is presented, including guiding questions and conceptual complexities to consider in the work of analysis.http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/22639feministpolicypolicy analysisintersectionalitysocial work |
| spellingShingle | Heather Kanenberg Roberta Leal Stephen "Arch" Erich Revising McPhail’s Feminist Policy Analysis Framework Advances in Social Work feminist policy policy analysis intersectionality social work |
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| title_full | Revising McPhail’s Feminist Policy Analysis Framework |
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