Challenging Oppression : A Critical Approach to Social Work by Robert Mullaly

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Challenging Oppression : A Critical Approach to Social Work by Robert Mullaly

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Summary

Addresses the experiences of anyone who has been discriminated against or blocked from opportunities because of their gender, race, social position, sexual orientation, age, or disability. This title offers explanations of why and how oppression and discrimination occur in a free and open society.

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Challenging Oppression : A Critical Approach to Social Work by Robert Mullaly

In "Challenging Oppression", Mullaly examines the personal, cultural, and structural or institutional levels of oppression. He demonstrates how and why social workers should approach those who experience social problems based on an imposed inferior type of citizenship (gender, age, disabilities, colour, and sexuality) with a broader and deeper understanding of the dynamics and various forms of oppression. Drawing on the insights of such radical thinkers as Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire, and Albert Memmi this important analysis proposes a psychology of liberation so that all oppressed peoples might resist the dominant hegemony that encourages them to internalize and blame themselves for their own oppression by accepting as normal and inevitable the present society and its frequently oppressive social institutions.

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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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ISBN 13 9780195416954
ISBN 10 0195416953
Title Challenging Oppression : A Critical Approach to Social Work
Author Robert Mullaly
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press, Canada
Year published 2002-06-01
Number of pages 248
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