...This chapter examines the regulation of autobiographical lies told outside circumstances of heightened testimonial importance in relation to the political values of equality and an under-theorized form of accommodation. It considers the range of values encapsulated by our practices of accommodation...

...This chapter examines how the Muslim question intersects with the question of equality. In The Law of Peoples, John Rawls outlined a plan for justice among peoples. The Law of Peoples focuses primarily on one difference and division, that between Islam and the West...

... of postcolonial states, democratize decision-making, and achieve international redistribution. At the center of this welfare world was a radical recasting of sovereign equality as a demand for an equitable share of the world's wealth. The NIEO envisioned this expansive account of sovereign equality...

... of the community or country before self. The chapter uses patriotism as a means of forcing a trade-off: freedom versus equality. skeptics Tea Party detractors authoritarianism social conformity civil liberties ethnocentrism motives for Tea Party support patriotism reactionary conservatism sympathizers Tea...

... standards and simultaneously distanced it from sexual equality. Brandeis Louis D Goldmark Josephine Grand Laundry Kelley Florence Lace House Laundry maximum hours laws Muller Curt Muller v Oregon 1908 Oregon ten hour laws Brandeis briefs Brewer David J “class by herself ” woman as “difference...

...This chapter proposes a framework that makes it possible to consider future generations explicitly and presents two future-directed obligations of justice. It argues for a principle of intergenerational equality: each generation can be reasonably expected to leave a nondeclining stock of natural...

... control, unmilitary slackness and heroic discipline, comedy and tragedy. And, by contrast, there is a democratic or egalitarian signification, visible in the herm, in which the phallos serves as a marker of the notional equality of all the male householders and citizens of Athens. In doing so, the chapter...

..., or equalization as a distinct religious group. Only in the twentieth century did emancipation come to designate alterations in the Jews' status as a “nation” or a “race.” The book analyzes the complex and multidirectional process whereby Jews acquired civil and political rights and came to exercise citizenship's...

... was that most liberals expanded their conception of individual rights and representative government to include equality for members of all confessions and equality of all the confessions. However, the revolutionary cauldron helped the various opponents of emancipation begin to shape the potent phenomenon...

.... In turn, the Habsburg Empire's shattering defeats forced its restructuring. The very nature of those three developments entailed new complications. Unification and restructuring left multiple forms of inequality intact and created new ones. The struggle for equality continued in a “post-emancipation...

... of “state membership” as well as expropriating all remaining property. Nazi de-emancipation inspired governments across Europe to infringe on Jews' equality or demote them to a lesser status. The governments first expropriated Jews' property and then their labor. Poland did not pass blanket legislation...

... prohibiting discrimination, dismantled the structure of inequality. Those events constituted American Jews' second emancipation: it positioned the immigrant's children and grandchildren to realize the promise of American equality. African Americans anti Semitism Catholicism civil rights emigration...

... with a contradiction at the very heart of the political thinking that articulated them—a political thinking integral to the discourse of secularism. Liberal political theory postulated the sameness of all individuals as the key to their formal equality—abstracted from their circumstances there was no discernable...

... of secularism as it had been defined in the nineteenth-century anticlerical campaigns but the home of what was derided as godless atheism. In this new discourse, the secular and the Christian were increasingly considered synonymous, and women's sexual emancipation became the primary indicator of gender equality...

...The author's acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. In this book, the author challenges one of the central claims of the “clash of civilizations” polemic—that secularism guarantees gender equality. The book shows that the gender equality invoked today...

...This chapter looks at how Hume's theory is obviously attractive to those who live under conditions of brutal civil war or anarchy, or who fear such. Contemporary citizens demand not just order but other things: at the least, liberty, equality, and democracy. With respect to the first two...

...This chapter addresses the horizontal biases of coordination: the ability of those holding government office to systematically favor some over others in the distribution of public goods or even of legal protection. It argues that the main guarantor of equality, in the face of the inequality...

...This chapter considers what makes racial equality in the American housing system such a divisive issue. Because housing choices profoundly affect people's personal lives and yet also have enormous public consequences for the structure of the nation as a whole, there arose concerns to make sure...

...This chapter discusses high liberalism, starting with its conception of equality based on an equal sharing of material goods. Compared to the classical liberal ideal pursued by Americans, the European vision of liberal equality saw property rights not as guardians of equality but obstacles to its...

... of women's equality. The sensibility and organizing strategies of suburban liberal politics were both crucial to the success of several campaigns, especially the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The pivot also helped the movement further earn the notice and attention of politicians eager to win...