1st Edition

Mindfulness and the Psychology of Oppression Navigating Misogyny

By Seonaigh MacPherson Copyright 2026
180 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive, evidence-based, and engaging inquiry into women’s oppression and its mitigation through contemplative practices like meditation. It combines scholarly depth with embodied experiences and practices that interweaves individual, interpersonal, and public relationships.   Locating oppression as an internalized psychological response to toxic social... Read more

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

Biography

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.