EQUALITY RESEARCH
Must rights for women reify oppression? Can racial profiling be justified if we care about racial equality? Is it wrong to discriminate against people based on their appearance? These are some of the questions that I have tried to answer over the years. I am now beginning to draw these strands of research together, into a larger project on discrimination. It will connect conceptual and normative questions about discrimination to competing conceptions of equality (such as equality as sameness, equality of status, equality as non-domination) and to the metaphysical and political dimensions of race, sex and personal identity. In this way, I hope to explore the similarities and differences amongst familiar forms of discrimination (race, religion, sex, age, disability), as well as to clarify how far we are justified in trying to prevent discrimination by law.
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