ISBN:
9780199093779
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
305.0954
Abstract:
All known societies exclude and stigmatize one or more minority groups. Frequently these exclusions are underwritten with a rhetoric of disgust: people of a certain group, it is alleged, are filthy, hyper-animal, or not fit to share such facilities as drinking water, food, and public swimming pools with the `clean' and `fully human' majority. But exclusions vary in their scope and also in the specific disgust-ideologies underlying them. In this volume, interdisciplinary scholars from the United States and India present a detailed comparative study of the varieties of prejudice and stigma that pervade contemporary social and political life: prejudice along the axes of caste, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, transgender, disability, religion, and economic class.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018
,
Includes index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780199487837.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199487837.001.0001
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