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Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kirkland, Anna Rutherford, PUBLISHER: New York University Press, Author Interview on "The Brian Lehrer Show" America is a weight-obsessed nation. Over the last decade, there's been an explosion of concern in the U.S. about people getting fatter. Plaintiffs are now filing lawsuits arguing that discrimination against fat people should be illegal. Fat Rights asks the first provocative questions that need to be raised about adding weight to lists of currently protected traits like race, gender, and disability. Is body fat an indicator of a character flaw or of incompetence on the job? Does it pose risks or costs to employers they should be allowed to evade? Or is it simply a stigmatized difference that does not bear on the ability to perform most jobs? Could we imagine fatness as part of workplace diversity? Considering fat discrimination prompts us to rethink these basic questions that lawyers, judges, and ordinary citizens ask before a new trait begins to look suitable for antidiscrimination coverage. Fat Rights draws on little-known legal cases brought by fat citizens as well as significant lawsuits over other forms of bodily difference (such as transgenderism), asking why the boundaries of our antidiscrimination laws rest where they do. Fatness, argues Kirkland, is both similar to and provocatively different from other protected traits, raising long-standing dilemmas in antidiscrimination law into stark relief. Though options for defending difference may be scarce, Kirkland evaluates the available strategies and proposes new ways of navigating this new legal question. Fat Rights enters the fray of the obesity debate from a new perspective: our inherited civil rights tradition. The scope is broad, covering much more than just weight discrimination and drawing the reader into the larger context of antidiscrimination protections and how they can be justified for a new group.

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Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine After Totalitarianism

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Motyl, Alexander, PUBLISHER: Council on Foreign Relations Press, The collapse of the Soviet Union added a large new country-Ukraine-to the map of Europe. With its endowment of natural resources and skilled population of 52 million, Ukraine can play a major role in European and world affairs. How an independent Ukraine evolves internally and the foreign policies it adopts will have considerable impact on Europe, East and West, and the United States. Alexander J. Motyl, an authority on the post-Soviet nations, examines the painful choices confronting Ukraine. He considers Ukraine's troublesome inheritance from the Soviet Union and discusses ways Ukraine might overcome this legacy to build a modern, democratic, and market-oriented state. Motyl advances an evolutionary approach, one that places equal emphasis on economic reform, the creation of democracy and civil society, state-building, and ethnic peace. He also explores Kiev's relations with Moscow, and suggests what the West should-and should not-do to help Ukraine and the other former republics survive their post-imperial and post-totalitarian challenges.

Emotions and Personhood: Exploring Fragility - Making Sense

How does a person experience emotions? What is the relationship between the experiential and biological dimensions of emotions? How do emotions figure in a person's relation to the world and to other people? How do emotions feature in human vulnerability to mental illness? Do they play a significant role in the fragile balance between mental health and illness? If emotions are in fact significant,how are they relevant for treatment? Emotions and personhood are important notions within the field of m

Human Rights from Below: Achieving Rights Through Community

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ife, Jim, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights can be better realised when community development principles are applied. The book offers a long overdue assessment of how human rights and community development are invariably interconnected. It highlights how critical it is to understand the two as a basis for thinking about and taking action to address the serious challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century. Written both for students and for community development and human rights workers, Human Rights from Below brings together the important fields of human rights and community development, to enrich our thinking of both.

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The Politics of Rights: Lawyers, Public Policy, and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Scheingold, Stuart A. / Feeley, Malcolm M., PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Press, Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering and provocative work, bridging political science and sociolegal studies. In the preface to this new edition, the author provides a cogent analysis of the burgeoning scholarship that has been built on the foundations laid in his original volume. A new foreword from Malcolm Feeley of Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law traces the intellectual roots of "The Politics of Rights" to the classic texts of social theory and sociolegal studies. "Scheingold presents a clear, thoughtful discussion of the ways in which rights can both empower and constrain those seeking change in American society. While much of the writing on rights is abstract and obscure, "The Politics of Rights" stands out as an accessible and engaging discussion." -Gerald N. Rosenberg, University of Chicago "This book has already exerted an enormous influence on two generations of scholars. It has had an enormous influence on political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, as well as historians and legal scholars. With this new edition, this influence is likely to continue for still more generations. "The Politics of Rights" has, I believe, become an American classic." -Malcolm Feeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, from the foreword Stuart A. Scheingold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington.

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Immigrants' Rights,Citizens' Rights (Paperback)

Explains the difference between immigrants and United States citizens,the two different ways to become a citizen,the rights only citizens have and the ones immigrants share,deportation,and rights under the criminal law.

A world of difference an anthology of short stories

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Guinness Tercentenary of the Bill of Rights Coin

Guinness Tercentenary of the Bill of Rights Coin Uncirculated £2 coin Some creasing to the presentation cover Read More

Guinness Tercentenary of the Bill of Rights Coin

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£2 coin Tercentenary Of Bill Of Rights

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A world of difference

This is a open uni book for the module AA100 the arts past and present. Even if you are not studying the course it's a lovely book to read. There are notes made on one of the stories - the squatter but these are in pencil so you can easily rub them out. Price includes postage. Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit

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400 Fat Free and Low Fat Recipes

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Rare “Declaration of Human Rights ” Signed.

Postage on Application. This Contemporary Multicoloured African artwork is entitled “Declaration of Human Rights Dec-”  and is signed by the renowned artist Caroline Cullinan This is a very rare " x x 47 cm Art Print, is in excellent condition and has been professionally framed. It is impossible to find another copy of this Wonderful Multicoloured Subject by this stylish Renowned South African Artist anywhere. This is a true Art Statement and is a Real Collectors Item. Please see all photographs for a full and better description.  Read more

The Civil Rights Act of (Hardcover)

Examines the events that inspired the writing of the Civil Rights Act of ,looks at its implementation and immediate impact,and considers the legislation's lasting legacy.

Uncirculated bill of rights £2 coin

Selling cheap quick sale needed comes in capsule so it's protected. Uncirculated, fantastic condition, lovely coin. Can collect or post, buyer pays P&P of their choice Only one avaliable Read more

The Politics of Human Rights Protection

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jan Knippers Black, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Incorporated, NA

The Age of Bowie: How David Bowie Made a World of Difference

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Performing Difference: Representations of The Other in Film

Performing Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from some of the leading scholars in history,criticism,film,and theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and individuals that have been traditionally marginalized or excluded from dominant historical narratives.

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