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Print Price: $130.95

Format:
Hardback
216 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780190927301

Publication date:
May 2020

Imprint: OUP US


Faces of Inequality

A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination

Sophia Moreau

Series : Oxford Legal Philosophy

This book defends an original and pluralist theory of when and why discrimination wrongs people. Starting from actual legal cases in which claimants have alleged wrongful discrimination by other people or by the state, Sophia Moreau argues that we can best understand these people's complaints by thinking of them as complaints about different ways in which they have not been treated as equals in their societies - in particular, through unfair subordination, through the violation of their right to a particular deliberative freedom, or through the denial to them of access to a basic good, that is, a good that this person must have access to if they are to be, and to be seen as, an equal in their society.

The book devotes a chapter to each of these wrongs, exploring in detail what unfair subordination consists of; what deliberative freedoms are, and when each of us has a right to them; and what it means to deny someone access to a basic good. The author explains why these wrongs are each distinctive, but are each a different way of failing to treat some people as the equals of others. Finally the author argues that both the state and we as individuals have a duty to treat others as equals, in these three specific senses.

Readership : Law professors and law students; professors and students in philosophy.

Preface
1. A Question of Inequality
2. Unfair Subordination
3. The Relevance of Deliberative Freedom
4. Access to Basic Goods
5. A Pluralist Answer to the Question of Inequality
6. Indirect Discrimination
7. The Duty to Treat Others as Equals: Who Stands Under It?
Conclusion

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Sophia Moreau is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Toronto.

Making Sense - Margot Northey
Measuring Inequality - Frank Cowell
Discrimination Law - Sandra Fredman FBA
Habits of Inequality - Lorne Tepperman and Nina Gheihman

Special Features

  • Presents a pluralist theory of wrongful discrimination.
  • Develops a theory of unfair subordination; discusses rights to deliberative freedom and denials of "basic goods".
  • Provides an innovative account of the relationship between direct and indirect discrimination.