Research Catalog

Title

Justice and the politics of difference / Iris Marion Young.

Author

Young, Iris Marion, 1949-

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011.

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Additional Authors

Allen, Danielle S., 1971-

Description

x, 286 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

Subjects

• Social justice
• Social institutions
• Political participation
• Oppression (Psychology)
• Cultural pluralism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780691152622
• 0691152624

LCCN

^^2011925684

OCLC

• 751237488
• SCSB-12528651

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library