...Freedom, Equality, Individuals, Groups, and the Struggle Between Identity and Difference ...

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... This piece, which has become a classic text in feminist theory, attempts to tease out a number of possible understandings of a central contradiction in contemporary feminist thinking. This recurring feminist divide goes under a variety of names: equality versus difference, minimizers versus...

... over the differences between the two Indias, which is central to the politics of nationalism, electoral politics, and globalization. Instead of dissolving the social hierarchies, the essay argues, the concept of sarvajan tends to accommodate them. nationalism Dalit social equality democracy...

... and its implications for relations among young Yugoslav men brought together on military bases, as well as for relations between men’s uniformed and “ordinary” selves. Together with repetitive, standardized routines, the uniform worked as an equalizer for drastically different men, but the military...

... This chapter, delivered as the 2010 Kessler Lecture at the City University of New York Graduate Center, grapples with the failure of the mainstream LGBTQ movement to champion racial equality in its mission, and argues that this failure reflects the single-issue focus of the movement’s leaders...

... by combining different forms of expertise and experience both from within and from outside the social scientific fields. The resulting object of study might well be described as embedding a “civil” or “community ontology,” for the intersections of facts and values in these different knowledge communities were...

... of their gendered and sexual identities and its relationship to the state. deviance difference marriage equality movement respectability politics ...

... not be considered as specifically the province of women? equality or difference social construction essentialism radical feminist theory difference feminism By now, thousands of college students have read A Gender Diary. Both colleagues and students have discussed the piece with the author over...

... theories of cultural difference. It argues that postgenomic uncertainty over whether race is a fixed or malleable property of human populations makes race newly important in assessing the equally uncertain futures that neoliberal capitalism promises for working populations, especially those from elsewhere...

... If the apartheid regime obsessed over ethnic, cultural, and racial differences, class differences have largely defined the post-apartheid era. This chapter pays particular attention to the new unfettered market capitalism, which has widened the gap between rich and poor as it promotes...

... truth independent of the competitive circumstances of its genesis. The same can be said of gods. This conclusion summarizes the argument that Afro-Atlantic priests offer different but equally socially situated, materially conditioned, and strategic propositions about the proper nature of social life...

... the essential problem of biopolitics in contemporary life, that is, the ways different kinds of human lives are unevenly valued, despite and through liberal democratic claims that all lives are equal. exceptional bodies biopolitics military masculinity ...

... and social difference, which positions indigenous women as visible in public policy in ways that preempt their claims to agency, equality, or recognition. participatory development (pd) neoliberalism Andes governance community credit scheme ...

... and established the terms for the Indians' incorporation into the Spanish Empire. Seventeenth-century sermons and political treatises by British settlers in New England imputed humanity to indigenous peoples in terms of equal but separate sovereignties and were foundational to the construction of eighteenth...

... The question I received most in the field was, “How does this unemployment happen?” To attempt an answer, the chapter examines the tension between two explanations for the sustained unemployment of foreign trained professionals: bureaucratic miscommunication versus bodily difference...

... motherhood during her confirmation, and her influence on the law. Equally significant is how toxicity works intraculturally, intracommunally, and intrapersonally. The chapter argues that while Black and white mothers are seen differently, toxic parenting rooted in heteropatriarchal normativity, which...

... women power of tradition This chapter, delivered as the 2010 Kessler Lecture at the City University of New York Graduate Center, grapples with the failure of the mainstream LGBTQ movement to champion racial equality in its mission, and argues that this failure reflects the single-issue focus...

... on the theorizations that preceded their own. In this way, new black queer studies scholars embody the signifyin(g) tradition of African American arts and criticism—that of repetition and revision with a critical difference. Johnson synthesizes each of the nineteen essays to reflect the critical differences...