Challenging Oppression and Confronting Privilege: A Critical Social Work Approach

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Oxford University Press, 2010 - Social Science - 356 pages
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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.

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Contents

An Overview
34
Oppression at the Personal Level
67
Oppression at the Cultural Level
93
Copyright

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About the author (2010)


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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TitleChallenging Oppression and Confronting Privilege: A Critical Social Work Approach
AuthorRobert P. Mullaly
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherOxford University Press, 2010
Original fromNorthwestern University
DigitizedApr 28, 2011
ISBN0195429702, 9780195429701
Length356 pages
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Social Science / Social Work
  
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