Challenging Oppression and Confronting Privilege
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Challenging Oppression and Confronting Privilege is the definitive guide to anti-oppressive social work, which is a prominent part of social work theory and practice in Canada. Bob Mullaly examines the many forms that oppression can take, at the personal, cultural, and structural (or institutional) levels. The text outlines the necessary practices and approaches that social work must adopt in order to fight against oppression and assist those who have been oppressed.

Table of Contents:
1. Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations ; The Imperative of Theory ; Social Problems: The Great Paradox of the Helping Professions ; Order and Conflict/Change Perspectives ; Order Perspective ; Conflict (Change) Perspective ; Critical Social Theory ; Critical Social Work Theory ; Modernism and Postmodernism ; Major Concepts Associated with Oppression/Anti-Oppression Framework ; 2. Oppression: An Overview ; Diversity, Difference, and Oppression ; Social Work Approaches to Difference ; The Nature of Oppression ; Oppression as a Social Justice Issue ; The Genealogy of Modern-Day Oppression and the Politics of Identity ; The Dynamics of Oppression ; Forms of Oppression ; Personal, Cultural, and Structural Levels of Oppression ; 3. Oppression at the Personal Level ; Normalizing Gaze and Objectified Bodies ; Acts of Oppression at the Personal Level ; Effects of Oppression on the Individual ; Surviving Oppression: Responses of Oppressed People at the Personal Level ; Critical Social Theory and Personal Oppression ; 4. Oppression at the Cultural Level ; Culture (the 'poor cousin' in social work) ; The Dominant Culture ; Critical Social Theories of Culture ; Stereotypes as Cultural Expressions of Oppression ; Language and Discourse as Mechanisms of Oppression (and Anti-Oppression) ; Social Work and Cultural Oppression ; 5. Oppression at the Structural Level ; Social Relations and Oppression ; The Politics of Difference ; Economic Relations and Oppression ; Effects of Structural Oppression ; Oppression as Structural Violence and Social Terrorism ; Social Determinants of Health ; 6. Internalized Oppression and Domination ; Psychology of Oppression ; Inferiority and Internalized Oppression ; The Master-Slave Paradigm ; False Consciousness ; Other Perspectives on Internalized Oppression ; Psychology of Liberation ; Internalized Domination ; 7. The 'WEB': The Multiplicity, Intersectionality, and Heterogeneity of Oppression ; Multiple Identities and the Persistence of Domination and Oppression ; A Model of Multiple Oppressions ; The Web of Oppression ; Intersections of Oppression: An Analysis ; Heterogeneity within Oppressed Groups ; 8. Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice at the Personal and Cultural Levels ; Anti-Oppressive Practice at the Personal Level ; Anti-Oppressive Practice at the Cultural Level ; 9. Anti-Oppressive Anti-Oppressive Social Work at the Structural Level and Selected ; Principles of Anti-Oppressive Social Work ; Anti-Oppressive Practice at the Structural Level ; Selective Principles of Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice ; The Constructive Use of Anger ; 10. Unpacking Our Knapsacks of Invisible Privilege (NEW) ; The Nature of Privilege ; Dynamics of Privilege ; Why Dominant Groups Do Not See Privilege as a Problem ; A Taxonomy of Everyday Examples of Unearned Privilege ; Social Work and Privilege ; What Can We Do?

About the Author :
Bob Mullaly is a professor in the faculty of Social Work at University of Manitoba. Previously, he has taught in the Department of Social Work at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, and in the Social Work program at St Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, which he founded. He is also the author of The New Structural Social Work (OUP Canada, 2007).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195429701
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 501 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195429702
  • Publisher Date: 19 Nov 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 153 mm


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