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Book Reviews Book Reviews 115 Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice. By Mab Segrest. New Bruns- wick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002, 263 pp., $23.95 (paper). Segrest, a veteran activist and professor of women’s studies, brings the reader along on her quest to spotlight social justice concerns in a world that is being transformed by globalization and urban development. Using inter- national travel as a metaphor, Segrest narrates her own journey along the path toward global sociopolitical awareness. She suggests that progressing along this path also leads to an expansion of spiritual awareness, which, in turn, mandates working toward social justice. Segrest’s travels take her to the 1995 Beijing United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, the People’s Fund in Honolulu in 1996, the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and South Africa. Embedded in her travel log is an incisive critique of the Western imperialist agenda of world colonizationin the name of economic development. Segrest ponders by what mechanisms White slaveholders, or anyone who oppresses others for that matter, justify their actions. Her conclusion may be an apt application of Freudian theory. Segrest suggests the history of racism, colonialism, sexism, and hetero- sexism (all states of paranoia) demonstrates that not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work , Volume 19 (1): 2 – Feb 1, 2004
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Book Reviews 115 Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice. By Mab Segrest. New Bruns- wick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002, 263 pp., $23.95 (paper). Segrest, a veteran activist and professor of women’s studies, brings the reader along on her quest to spotlight social justice concerns in a world that is being transformed by globalization and urban development. Using inter- national travel as a metaphor, Segrest narrates her own journey along the path toward global sociopolitical awareness. She suggests that progressing along this path also leads to an expansion of spiritual awareness, which, in turn, mandates working toward social justice. Segrest’s travels take her to the 1995 Beijing United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, the People’s Fund in Honolulu in 1996, the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and South Africa. Embedded in her travel log is an incisive critique of the Western imperialist agenda of world colonizationin the name of economic development. Segrest ponders by what mechanisms White slaveholders, or anyone who oppresses others for that matter, justify their actions. Her conclusion may be an apt application of Freudian theory. Segrest suggests the history of racism, colonialism, sexism, and hetero- sexism (all states of paranoia) demonstrates that not

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