Myths About the Powerless

Contesting Social Inequalities

AvM. Brinton Lykes

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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Exposing the assumptions about issues at the center of our national debate

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Utgivningsdatum:1996-05-30
Mått:155 x 30 x 30 mm
Vikt:649 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:277
Förlag:Temple University Press,U.S.
ISBN:9781566394215

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Foreword --George W. Albee Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction Part II: Inequality, Poverty, and Social Policy 1. Equality, Morality, and the Health of Democracy --S. M. Miller 2. Culture, Structure, and the Underclass --Michael Morris 3. The Homeless Shelter and the Nineteenth-Century Poorhouse: Comparing Notes from Two Eras of "Indoor Relief" --Dennis P. Culhane 4. Welfare Reform and the New Class War --Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward 5. The So-Called Underclass and the Future of Anti-Poverty Policy --Herbert J. Gans Part III: Beyond Victim Blaming: The Emergence of New Voices 6. Mental Health and Unemployment: The Making and Unmaking of Psychological Casualties --Ramsay Liem and Joan Huser Liem 7. Insisting on Innocence: Accounts of Accountability by Abusive Men --Michelle Fine, Toni Genovese, Sarah Ingersoll, Pat Macpherson and Rosemarie Roberts 8. Meaning Making in a Context of Genocide and Silencing --M. Brinton Lykes 9. Psychology, the Distant Other, and the Dialectics of Change in Non-Western Societies --Ali Banuazizi Part IV: Revisiting the Crisis in Health and Mental Health 10. Choices and Chances: How a Profit-Driven Health Care System Discriminates against Middle-Aged Women --Paula B. Doress-Worters 11. Cancer and Poverty: Double Jeopardy for Women --Jean V. Hardisty and Ellen Leopold 12. The Challenges Facing Community Health Centers in the 1990s: A Voice from the Inner City --Elizabeth Sparks 13. Privatization and the Global Economy and Mental Health in Massachusetts --Matthew P. Dumont Part V: Consciousness Raising, Action, and Community Change 14. Women's Abortion Experiences as Sources of Political Mobilization --Abigail J. Stewart and Sharon Gold-Steinberg 15. Rethinking Social Action and Community Empowerment: A Dialogue --Bill Berkowitz and Tom Wolff 16. Art as Community Narrative: A Resource for Social Change --R. Elizabeth Thomas and Julian Rappaport 17. Dismantling the Post-War Social Contract --Sumner M. Rosen Part VI: A Conversation between William Ryan and M. Brinton Lykes About the Contributors Author Index Subject Index