The empire of disgust : prejudice, discrimination, and policy in India and the US / edited by Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum, Vidhu Verma.
Contributor(s): Hasan, Zoya [editor.] | Huq, Aziz Z [editor.]
| Nussbaum, Martha Craven [editor.] | Verma, Vidhu [editor.].Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199093779 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Discrimination -- India | Discrimination -- United States | Minorities -- India -- Social conditions | Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions | Aversion -- India | Aversion -- United StatesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199487837DDC classification: 305.0954 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes index.
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.
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