Analyzing Oppression

Name: Analyzing Oppression
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ISBN: 9780195187441

ISBN-10: 019518744X

ISBN-13: 9780195187441

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ann E. Cudd

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Analyzing Oppression presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so persistent? Cudd argues that the explanation lies in the coercive co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppression. This answer sets the stage for analysis throughout the book, as it explores the questions ofhow and why the oppressed join in their oppression. Cudd argues that oppression is an institutionally structured harm perpetrated on social groups by other groups using direct and indirect material, economic, and…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/27/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 9.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




A Framework for Analysis



Oppression: The Fundamental Injustice of Social Institutions



Social Groups and Institutional Constraints



Psychological Mechanisms of Oppression



Forces of Oppression



Violence as a Force of Oppression



Economic Forces of Oppression



Psychological Harms of Oppression



We Shall Overcome



Resistance and Responsibility



Fashioning Freedom


Appendix


Notes


References


Index