| Absztrakt | What challenges are presented by the claim that diversity should be celebrated?
How should equality politics respond to controversial constituencies, such
as smokers and recreational hunters, when they position themselves as
disadvantaged? Challenging Diversity brings a new and original approach to
key issues facing social, political and cultural theory. Critically engaging with
feminist, radical democratic and liberal scholarship, the book addresses four
major challenges confronting a radical equality politics, namely, what does
equality mean for preferences and choices that appear harmful? are equal-
ity’s subjects individuals, groups or something else? what power do dominant
norms have to undermine equality-oriented reforms? and can radical prac-
tices endure when they collide with the mainstream? Taking examples from
religion, gender, sexuality, state policy-making and intentional communities,
Challenging Diversity maps new ways of understanding equality, explores the
politics of its pursuit, and asks what kinds of diversity a radical version of
equality engenders.
davina cooper is Professor of Law and Political Theory in the School
of Law, University of Kent, and Director of the AHRB Research Centre in
Law, Gender and Sexuality. Her previous publications include Sexing the City:
Lesbian and Gay Politics within the Activist State (1994), Power in Struggle:
Feminism, Sexuality and the State (1995), Governing Out of Order: Space,
Law and the Politics of Belonging (1998).
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