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The Liberal Promise: Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Australia
The Liberal Promise AntiDiscrimination Legislation in Australia
Author: Margaret Thornton
This book demonstrates that blind faith in the law as a beneficent agent of social change is misplaced. Thornton argues that not only does the liberal commitment to individualism undermine the communal or class-based nature of discrimination, but the legal culture itself operates to uphold the power of social superordinates. She goes on to show ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195532043
ISBN-10: 019553204X
Publication Date: 2/24/1994
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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