Reasons of identity
Subtitle: a normative guide to the political and legal assessment of identity claims
By: Avigail Eisenberg.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780199291304
Subjects: Multiculturalism -- Political aspects; Multiculturalism -- Law and legislation; Minorities; Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc; Minorities -- Civil rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The identity approach: public decision making in diverse societies; title: Multiculturalism, identity quietism, and identity scepticism; title: Diversity and sexual equality: the challenge of incommensurability; title: Religious identity and the problem of authenticity; title: Indigenous identity claims: the perils of essentialism and domestication; title: Conclusion: reasons of identity.