This study was designed to explore the relationships between multiple forms of oppression and subjective physical health among a community sample of 85 Black lesbian and bisexual women. Self-report surveys assessing health behaviors, physical and mental health status, and experiences with discrimination were administered during a weekend retreat of a community-based organization serving this po...

Against the backdrop of dramatic struggles for social change in the twentieth century, characterized by non-violent opposition and civil disobedience, the Bahá’ı́ community of Iran has pursued a distinctively non-adversarial approach to social change under conditions of violent oppression. This non-adversarial model has received little attention in the literature on social change. This article t...

The capability approach focuses on understanding and removing unfreedom, so it is surprising that connections between oppression have been little discussed. I take seven steps towards filling void. (1) There an intuitive conceptual connection if we understand “oppression” as being held or confined to low levels. (2) Normatively, noteworthy oppressed people are at levels a result of the agency o...

OBJECTIVES This article aims to present an Oppression Model describing how and explaining why doctors sometimes take up the role of oppressor in clinical practice, and to furthermore create change by proposing alternatives. The model is intended to increase awareness of power issues in medical practitioners, thus creating an urge for empowering practices. DESIGN The Oppression Model is constr...