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Discrimination -- India -- Congresses.
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Discrimination -- United States -- Congresses.
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Marginality, Social -- India -- Congresses.
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Marginality, Social -- United States -- Congresses.
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Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- India -- Congresses.
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Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Congresses.
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Descript |
xxvi, 408 pages ; 23 cm |
Note |
"... the University of Chicago's Delhi Centre for generously funding the conference at which these papers were originally presented ..."--Acknowledgements. |
Contents |
The Dalit body: a reading for the Anthropocene / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Stigma or red tape? Roadblocks in the use of affirmative action / Ashwini Deshpande -- Of big black bucks and golden-haired little girls: how fear of interracial sex informed Brown v. Board of Education and its resistance / Justin Driver -- Four types of racism / Emilio Comay del Junco -- A social location theory of gender: how gender borders create the category "woman" / Emily Dupree -- Gender and anti-discrimination laws in India: modesty, honour, and defiled bodies / Vidhu Verma -- Regulating retirement and wrinkles in an age of prejudice / Saul Levmore -- Ageing, stigma, and disgust / Martha Nussbaum -- Disgust or equality? Sexual orientation and Indian law / Martha Nussbaum -- The rule of disgust? Contemporary transgender rights discourse in India / Jeffrey A. Redding -- Combatting exclusions through law: rights of transgender people in India / H.R. Vasujith Ram -- Disability, exclusions and resistance: an Indian context / Anita Ghai -- Process of shaming: the limits of disability policy in India / Nandini Ghosh -- What is the case against Muslims? / Aziz Z. Huq -- Muslims and the politics of discrimination in India / Zoya Hasan -- Class and classification: the role of disgust in regulating social status / Laura Weinrib -- The point of discrimination law: securing the freedom to flourish / Tarunabh Khaitan -- Economic theories of discrimination: the positive and the normative / Richard H. McAdams. |
Alt author |
Hasan, Zoya, 1947-
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Huq, Aziz Z.
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Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
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Verma, Vidhu, 1961-
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University of Chicago. Delhi Centre.
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ISBN |
9780199487837 (hardback) |
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0199487839 (hardback) |
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9780199093762 (eBook) |
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0199093768 (eBook) |
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