Myths about the powerless : contesting social inequalities
Examines the realities of social inequality, providing critical analyses of contemporary issues at the center of national debate homelessness, the underclass, poverty, welfare, unemployment, health and mental health care, and gender and intercultural relations.
xiv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781566394215, 9781566394222, 156639421X, 1566394228
33862962
Equality, morality, and the health of democracy / S.M. Miller
Culture, structure, and the underclass / Michael Morris
The homeless shelter and the nineteenth-century poorhouse : comparing notes from two eras of "indoor relief" / Dennis P. Culhane
Welfare reform and the new class war / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
The so-called underclass and the future of antipoverty policy / Herbert J. Gans
Mental health and unemployment : the making and unmaking of psychological casualties / Ramsay Liem and Joan Huser Liem
Insisting on innocence : accounts of accountability by abusive men / Michelle Fine [and others]
Meaning making in a context of genocide and silencing / M. Brinton Lykes
Psychology, the distant other, and the dialectics of change in non-western societies / Ali Banuazizi
Choices and chances : how a profit-driven health care system discriminates against middle-aged women / Paula B. Doress-Worters
Cancer and poverty : double jeopardy for women / Jean V. Hardisty and Ellen Leopold
The challenges facing community health centers in the 1990s : a voice from the inner city / Elizabeth Sparks
Privatization and the global economy and mental health in Massachusetts / Matthew P. Dumont
Women's abortion experiences as sources of political mobilization / Abijail J. Stewart and Sharon Gold-Steinberg
Rethinking social action and community empowerment : a dialogue / Bill Berkowitz and Tom Wolf
Art as community narrative : a resource for social change / R. Elizabeth Thomas and Julian Rappaport
Dismantling the postwar social contract / Sumner M. Rosen