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Making All the Difference
Martha Minow
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Description for Making All the Difference
Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 654.
Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for developmentally disabled people? Does equality mean treating everyone the same, even if such treatment affects some people adversely? Does a state requirement of employee maternity leave serve or violate the commitment to gender equality? Martha Minow takes a hard look at the way our legal system functions in dealing with people on the basis of race, gender, age, ethnicity, ... Read more
Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for developmentally disabled people? Does equality mean treating everyone the same, even if such treatment affects some people adversely? Does a state requirement of employee maternity leave serve or violate the commitment to gender equality? Martha Minow takes a hard look at the way our legal system functions in dealing with people on the basis of race, gender, age, ethnicity, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801499777
SKU
V9780801499777
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About Martha Minow
MarthaMinow is the Morgan and Helen Chu Professor of Law and the Dean of Harvard Law School.
Reviews for Making All the Difference
Minow wants to change our understanding of difference, to dislodge the oppressive meaning of difference as deviance from the norm and challenge the unstated reference point by which difference is defined. Much of Minow's book is devoted to tracing the intellectual origins of the social relations approach. Her wide-ranging summary of intellectual trends, from deconstruction to interpretative anthropology to pragmatism ... Read more