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.

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?

Bob Mullaly , Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Manitoba, Bob Mullaly , Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Manitoba, Canada