Understanding Violence and Abuse

An Anti-Oppressive Practice Perspective

Table des matières

  • : Acknowledgements
  • : Part 1 - Conceptualizing Violence and Abuse
  • : Introduction and Overview
  • : Definitions and Terminology
  • : AOP Key Concepts and Practice Principles
  • : Part 2 - Recognizing Violence and Abuse
  • : Class, Race, Religion, Violence and Abuse
  • : Gender, Sexuality, Violence and Abuse
  • : Ability, Age, Violence and Abuse
  • : Part 3 - Understanding Responses to Violence and Abuse
  • : Legislative and Policy Responses
  • : Social Movements and Community Responses
  • : Individual and Therapeutic Responses
  • : Closing Comments
  • : Bibliography
  • : Index

La description

Using case studies from Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Bangladesh, India, and elsewhere, Heather Fraser and Kate Seymour discuss topics ranging from class oppression, street violence, white privilege, war, shame, Islamophobia, and abuse in intimate relationships, as well as introduce the core tenets of anti-oppressive social work practice.