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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations | |
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| The Imperative of Theory | |
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| Social Problems: The Great Paradox of the Helping Professions | |
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| Order and Conflict/Change Perspectives | |
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| Critical Social Theory | |
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| Critical Social Work Theory | |
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| Modernism and Postmodernism | |
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| Major Concepts Associated with Oppression/Anti-Oppression Framework | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Oppression: An Overview | |
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| Diversity, Difference, and Oppression | |
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| Social Work Approaches to Difference | |
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| The Nature of Oppression | |
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| Oppression as a Social Justice Issue | |
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| The Genealogy of Modern-day Oppression and the Politics of Identity | |
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| The Dynamics of Oppression | |
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| Forms of Oppression | |
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| Personal, Cultural, and Structural Levels of Oppression | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Oppression at the Personal Level | |
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| Normalizing Gaze and Objectified Bodies | |
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| Acts of Oppression at the Personal Level | |
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| Effects of Oppression on the Individual | |
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| Surviving Oppression: Responses of Oppressed People at the Personal Level | |
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| Critical Social Theory and Personal Oppression | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Oppression at the Cultural Level | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Culture (the 'Poor Cousin' in Social Work) | |
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| The Dominant Culture | |
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| Popular/Mass Culture | |
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| Critical Social Theories of Culture | |
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| Stereotypes as Cultural Expressions of Oppression | |
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| Language and Discourse as Mechanisms of Oppression (and Anti-Oppression) | |
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| Social Work and Cultural Oppression | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Oppression at the Structural Level | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Social Relations and Oppression | |
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| The Politics of Difference | |
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| Economic Relations and Oppression | |
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| Political Relations and Oppression | |
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| Effects of Structural Oppression | |
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| Social Determinants of Health | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Internalized Oppression and Domination | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Psychology of Oppression | |
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| Inferiority and Internalized Oppression | |
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| The Master-Slave Paradigm | |
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| False Consciousness | |
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| Other Perspectives on Internalized Oppression | |
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| Psychology of Liberation | |
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| Internalized Domination | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| The 'Web': The Multiplicity, Intersectionality, and Heterogeneity of Oppression | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Multiple Identities and the Persistence of Domination and Oppression | |
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| Models of Multiple Oppressions | |
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| Intersections of Oppression: An Analysis | |
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| Heterogeneity within Oppressed Groups | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice at the Personal and Cultural Levels | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Anti-Oppressive Practice at the Personal Level | |
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| Anti-Oppressive Practice at the Cultural Level | |
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| Challenging the Organization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Anti-Oppressive Social Work at the Structural Level and Selected Principles of Anti-Oppressive Social Work | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Anti-Oppressive Practice at the Structural Level | |
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| Selected Principles of Anti-oppressive Social Work Practice | |
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| The Constructive Use of Anger | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Unpacking Our Knapsacks of Invisible Privilege | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Nature of Privilege | |
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| Dynamics of Privilege | |
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| Why Dominant Groups Do Not See Privilege as a Problem | |
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| A Taxonomy of Everyday Examples of Unearned Privilege | |
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| Social Work and Privilege | |
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| What Can We Do? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Questions for Discussion | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |