Full Description
For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. Privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.
This second edition of Undoing Privilege revises the six sites of privilege from the first edition: Western, class, gender, race, sexual and embodied privilege with updated research and resources. It also provides four new chapters on anthropocentric, religious, adult and cis gender privilege. The new edition of the book engages with new theoretical developments and the changed political and policy context for
addressing privilege and oppression. It also demonstrates how members of privileged groups can critically interrogate their own dominant position and the potential and limitations of them becoming allies against oppression and their unearned advantage.
Contents
Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations
1. Oppression, Privilege and Relations of Domination
2. The Matrix and Social Dynamics of Privilege
Part II: Intersecting Sites of Privilege
3. Anthropocentrism and Human Supremacy (new)
4. Western Global Dominance and Eurocentrism
5. Political Economy and Class Elitism
6. Gender Order and the Patriarchal Dividend
7. Racial Formations and White Supremacy
8. Institutionalised Heterosexuality and Heteroprivilege
9. Cis gender privilege and gender conformity (new)
10. Ableist Relations and the Embodiment of Privilege
11. Adultism and the Oppression of Children and Young People (new)
12. Religious Privilege and the Hegemony of Christianity in the West (new)
Part III
13. Challenging the Reproduction of Privilege from Within
