Gender, Power, and Global Social Justice

This book analyses how practitioners can use psychotherapy as a healing mechanism, focusing on the intersection of gender, power, and social justice within the global context. It begins by interrogating the concept of social justice itself before examining men's and women's issues from biological, sociological, contextual, and ecological perspectives. Each chapter covers individual, couple, and family therapy as well as training and supervising for heterosexual and homosexual individuals from a social justice standpoint. With a centered and balanced perspective about the impact of gender and power on men's and women's relationships to each other and their ecological contexts, Daneshpour aims to help mental health practitioners privilege client voices, promote justice in gendered relationships, and manage the impact of socio-political issues in therapeutic practice.

Manijeh Daneshpour is distinguished professor of marriage and family therapy and the systemwide couple and family therapy director and at Alliant International University in California and a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than two decades of academic, research, and clinical experience.

1. Gender, nurture, nature 2. Masculinity in global contexts 3. Women rights in global contexts 4. The impact of colonization on global social justice 5. Gender and religion 6. Gender and politics 7. Gender, race and class 8. Gender and war 9. Gender and violence 10. Gender and work 11. Gender and supervision