Title: Myths about the Powerless: Contesting Social Inequalities
Abstract: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...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 IndexRead More
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-05-24
Language: en
Type: book
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