Screen LibraryJustice and the politics of difference /
"In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements that were created by marginal and excluded groups,...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: |
2022. ©2011 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | New Princeton Classics edition. |
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Princeton classics edition
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"In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements that were created by marginal and excluded groups, including women, African Americans, and American Indians, as well as gays and lesbians. Young argues that by assuming a homogeneous public, democratic theorists fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms. Consequently, theorists do not adequately address the problems of an inclusive participatory framework. Basing her vision of the good society on the culturally plural networks of contemporary urban life, Young makes the case that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group differences"--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 286 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-275) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691235165 0691235163 |
| Index Number: | JC578 |
| CLC: | D081 |
| Call Number: | D081/Y729 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 1. Displacing the distributive paradigm -- 2. Five faces of oppression -- 3. Insurgency and the welfare capitalist society -- 4. The idea of impartiality and the civic public -- 5. The scaling of bodies and the politics of identity -- 6. Social movements and the politics of difference -- 7. Affirmative action and the myth of merit -- 8. City life and difference -- Epilogue: International justice. |