Mindfulness and the Psychology of Oppression

This book offers a comprehensive, evidence-based and engaging inquiry into women's oppression and contemplative practices like meditation. It combines scholarly depth with embodied experiences and practices that interweaves individual, interpersonal and public relationships.

Seonaigh MacPherson is a professor of adult and higher education, with a specialization in diversity and mindfulness-based teaching and learning (MBTL) in the Faculty of Education, Community, and Human Development at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada.

Acknowledgements Preface 1 - Introduction 2 - The Location of Oppression 3 - Women Encounter Misogyny 4 - Emotions in Oppression 5 - Consciousness, Oppression, and Mindfulness 6 - Mindfulness as Anti-Oppressive Practice