The Liberal Promise: Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Australia

by 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 how such a subversive result can be achieved through the application of the ostensibly neutral principles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019553204X
• ISBN13: 9780195532043
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.8"