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Paper for the AHRC Centre for Law, Gender, and Sexuality
Intersectionality Workshop, 21/22 May 2005, Keele University, UK

Structural Injustice and the Politics of Difference
Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago, iyoung@uchicago.edu, April 2005
As a social movement tendency in the 1980’s, the politics of difference has involved the claims of feminist, anti-racist, and gay liberation activists that the structural inequalities of gender, race, and sexuality were not well perceived or combated by the dominant paradigm of equality and inclusion. In this dominant paradigm, the promotion of justice and equality requires non-discrimination: the application of the same principles of evaluation and distribution to all persons regardless of their particular social positions or backgrounds. In this ideal, which many understood as the liberal paradigm, social justice means ignoring gender, racial or sexual differences among people. Social movements asserting a politics of......

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