Autore	Kershnar Stephen
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, : State University of New York Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (171 p.)
Disciplina	323.173
Collana	SUNY series in American constitutionalism
Soggetto topico	Minorities - Civil rights - United States Women's rights - United States Minorities - Government policy - United States Women - Government policy - United States Affirmative action programs - United States African Americans - Reparations
ISBN	0-7914-8515-3 1-4237-3980-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Justice for the Past -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION 1 -- Introduction -- SECTION 2: Civil Rights Laws -- 1. The Most Qualified Applicant -- PART 1. The Job Qualification -- PART 2. The Best Conception of a Job Qualification Yields at Most a Very Weak Reason to Favor a Meritocracy -- PART 3. Antidiscrimination Laws Cannot Be Justified by Meritocratic Concerns -- PART 4. Qualifications for Educational Institutions -- PART 5. Conclusion -- SECTION 3: Strong Affirmative Action -- 2. Strong Affirmative-Action Programs at State Institutions -- PART 1. Introduction -- PART 2. The Duty to Judge Persons According to Their Interests and Desert -- PART 3. Strong Affirmative-Action Programs at State Educational Institutions Cannot Be Justified via Compensatory Justice -- PART 4. Conclusion -- 3. Uncertain Damages to Racial Minorities and Strong Affirmative Action -- PART 1. The Hypothetical Imperative to Distribute Resources in a Just Manner -- PART 2. Compensatory Justice and the Assessment of Damages -- PART 3. Compensatory Justice and Inadequate Knowledge of Damages -- PART 4. We Do Not Have Adequate Knowledge of the Amount of Compensable Injury to Current Members of Some Racial Minority Groups -- PART 5. Conclusion -- SECTION 4: Reparations for Slavery -- 4. The Inheritance-Based Claim to Reparations -- PART 1. Introduction -- PART 2. Slavery Did Not Harm the Descendants of Slaves -- PART 3. Compensation May Be Owed to the Descendants of Slaves As a Result of a Legitimate Inheritance Claim -- PART 4. Conclusion -- 5. Reject the Inheritance-Based Claim to Reparations -- PART 1. Objections to the Inheritance-Based Claim to Reparations -- PART 2. Who Owes Compensation? -- PART 3 Conclusion -- SECTION 5: Proper Respect -- 6. Intrinsic Moral Value and Racial Differences -- PART 1. The Expression of Equal Moral Value -- PART 2. The Argument. PART 3. Implications of the Argument -- PART 4. Conclusion -- SECTION 6: Educational Diversity -- 7. Experiential Diversity -- PART 1. Grutter and Bakke -- PART 2. Experiential Diversity and Truth -- PART 3. A More General Approach to Diversity -- PART 4 Equal-Opportunity Arguments -- PART 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910820369203321

Autore	Hay Melba Porter <1949->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina	324.6 324.6/23092
Collana	Topics in Kentucky history
Soggetto topico	Women - United States Women's rights - United States Women - Suffrage Women - United States - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8131-3914-7 0-8131-3523-0 1-283-23343-6 9786613233431 0-8131-7326-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	"One great honored name," 1872-1889 -- "A thunder-bolt out of a clear sky," 1890-1896 -- "An unholy interest in reforming others," 1897-1900 -- "Our hope lies in the children," 1901-1904 -- "Whatever a woman can do-- in the long run she will do," 1905-1907 -- "Educational advance and school suffrage for women go hand in hand," 1908-1911 -- "Among the most brilliant advocates of votes for women in this country," 1912-1913 -- "An able speaker, a brilliant woman," 1914-1915 -- "I cannot keep her from doing more than she ought to do," 1916-1918 -- Kentucky's "most distinguished woman citizen," 1919-1920 -- Epilogue: "She belonged to Kentucky."
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454559703321

Autore	Stout Leon J.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	University Park, PA : , : The Penn State University Libraries, , [2012]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (263 pages)
Disciplina	305.420973
Soggetto topico	Women - Government policy - United States Women's rights - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-9839478-3-X 0-9839478-5-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chronology -- Introduction: The Question and the Answer -- Part 1 Advancing Women’s Role in Government: Barbara Hackman Franklin -- 1. Some Historical Background -- 2. Women’s Appointments and the President’s Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities -- 3. Setting the Stage for a Program -- 4. Calling Barbara Franklin: The Initiative Is Under Way -- 5. The Women’s Program Meets Its Goals -- Part 2 A Few Good Women in Their Own Words -- 6. Recounting Early Influences and the Special Role of Women in the Legal Profession -- 7. Recalling Barriers, Appointments, and Family Impact -- 8. Considering Networking, the President, and the Impact of the Women’s Program -- Conclusion: Breaking Barriers and Opening the Floodgates -- Afterword -- Appendix: The “A Few Good Women” Oral History Project -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480077403321

Autore	Schwarzenbach Sibyl A
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Columbia University Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (361 p.)
Disciplina	320.973082
Soggetto topico	Women - Political activity - United States Women's rights - United States Feminist theory - United States Liberalism - United States Democracy - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-59972-3 9786613629562 0-231-51948-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: Metaphor and theory change -- The forgotten category of ethical reproduction -- The liberal production model -- The socialist turn : missing faculties -- The possibility of a modern civic friendship -- Women, democracy, and the U.S. Constitution -- The state of feminist theory -- Looking outward : beyond the national security state.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461560903321