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Challenging oppression and confronting privilege : a critical social work approach
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Challenging oppression and confronting privilege : a critical social work approach

Author: Robert P Mullaly
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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First ed. published under title: Challenging oppression.

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Mullaly, Robert P.
Challenging oppression and confronting privilege.
Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010
(OCoLC)761198532
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert P Mullaly
ISBN: 9780195429701 0195429702
OCLC Number: 437081456
Notes: First ed. published under title: Challenging oppression.
Description: xi, 356 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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?
Responsibility: Bob Mullaly.
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