Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART ONE Theoretical and conceptual foundations -- 1 Oppression, privilege and relations of domination -- The other side of discrimination and oppression -- Elite studies and studying up -- The invisibility of privilege -- The normativity of privilege -- The naturalisation of privilege -- Privilege and the sense of entitlement -- 2 The matrix and social dynamics of privilege -- Towards an intersectional theory of oppression: anti-oppressive theory -- Towards an intersectional theory of privilege: a critique of anti-oppressive theory -- Fraser's theory of redistribution and recognition -- The internalisation of dominance and privilege -- Privilege and positionality: feminist standpoint theory -- Interrogating personal privilege -- Privilege as structured action: doing dominance -- PART TWO Intersecting sites of privilege -- 3 Western global dominance and Eurocentrism -- Globalising privilege -- The idea of the West -- Moving beyond Eurocentrism -- Orientalism: constructing the non-West -- The poverty of development -- Conspicuous consumption in the West -- Deconstructing epistemological privilege -- Postcolonial studies: constructing anti-colonialist practices -- Afrocentrism and the validation of African experience -- Making space for indigenous knowledge -- Southern theory and Northern dominance -- Conclusion -- 4 Political economy and class elitism -- A personal narrative of class -- Theorising class -- Whither class? -- Whither socialism? -- The myth of meritocracy and upward social mobility -- From redistribution to recognition -- The politics of the professional-managerial class -- Middle-class privilege and internalised dominance -- Towards cross-class alliances -- Class and the intersections with other forms of oppression -- Gendering and racialising class -- Class-based oppression and classism.

Conclusion -- 5 Gender order and the patriarchal dividend -- From gender difference to the social construction of masculinity -- Theorising male dominance and men's privilege -- Patriarchy and systemic domination -- Phallocentrism and symbolic order -- Sexism and coercive control -- Gender regimes and the gender order -- Understanding male privilege -- Intersections and the social divisions among men -- The unintended consequences of men's power and privilege -- Men's resistance to change -- Conclusion -- 6 Racial formations and white supremacy -- Growing up white -- Racism as prejudice -- Race relations and colour blindness -- Diversity awareness: race as the 'other' -- Making whiteness visible -- Recognising white privilege -- Whiteness and intersectionality -- Transforming or disowning whiteness -- Doing and undoing whiteliness -- Facing whiteness: emotions and the catalysts for change -- Defending whiteness: resistance to change -- The politics of whiteness -- Listening to those who experience racism -- Conclusion -- 7 Institutionalised heterosexuality and heteroprivilege -- Theorising (hetero)sexuality -- The construction of heterosexuality as natural and normative -- Homophobia and anti-gay prejudice -- Heterosexism and institutional heterosexuality -- Heteronormativity and compulsory heterosexuality -- Heterosexual privilege: the other side of sexual oppression -- Heterosexuality and gender domination -- Queer theory and the heterosexual/homosexual binary -- Gay politics and equal rights -- Heterosexuality and masculinity -- Heterosexuality and intersections with other forms of privilege -- From heterosexism awareness to destabilising heterosexuality -- Reconstructing heterosexuality -- Queering heterosexuality -- Conclusion -- 8 Ableist relations and the embodiment of privilege -- Embodied privilege as physical capital.

Revisiting the body in the social model of disability -- Disability and intersections with other forms of oppression -- The cultural construction of disablism and ableism -- The construction of able-bodied privilege -- Beyond the binary of able-bodied and disabled? -- The pathology of non-disablement -- Role of non-disabled people in challenging ableism -- Conclusion -- PART THREE Undoing privilege -- 9 Challenging the reproduction of privilege from within -- Challenging the normalisation of privilege -- Towards a pedagogy of the privileged -- Developing emancipatory interests -- Constructing a traitorous identity -- Engaging in dialogue across difference and inequality -- Listening across difference -- Becoming an ally -- Forging coalitions against oppression and privilege -- Developing models of accountability -- Relinquishing privilege? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

For every group that is oppressed, one or more other groups are privileged in relation to it. This book argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has been given insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change and as a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.

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