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The empire of disgust : prejudice, discrimination, and policy in India and the US / edited by Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum, Vidhu Verma.

Format Electronic and Book
EditionFirst edition.
Publication Info[New Delhi, India] : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Descriptionxxvi, 408 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorHasan, Zoya, 1947-
Other author/creatorHuq, Aziz Z.
Other author/creatorNussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
Other author/creatorVerma, Vidhu, 1961-
Other author/creatorUniversity of Chicago. Center in Delhi.
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
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.
General note"... the University of Chicago's Delhi Centre for generously funding the conference at which these papers were originally presented ..."--Acknowledgements.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018320491
ISBN9780199487837 (hardback)
ISBN0199487839 (hardback)
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Stock numberLibrary of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

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