By Martha Albertson Fineman
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Abstract
The societal frame of the “economically disadvantaged” is rooted in a distinction between a conceptual status of equality and the actuality of discrimination and disadvantage. This paradigm provides the governing logic for both criticism and justification of the status quo. This Article questions whether and to what extent this equality/antidiscrimination logic has lost its effectiveness as a critical tool and what, if anything, should be the foundation of the rationale that supplements or even replaces it.
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Recommended Citation
Martha Albertson Fineman, Beyond Equality and Discrimination, 73 SMU L. Rev. F. 51 (2020).
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