The measure of injury : race, gender, and tort law / Martha Chamallas and Jennifer B. Wriggins.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814790069
- Personal injuries -- United States
- Torts -- United States
- Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Sex discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Law
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Anthropology
- Law & society, gender issues
- Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
- Private or civil law: general
- 346.730323 23
- KF1257 .C43 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chamallas and Wriggins demonstrate how attitudes about race and gender run through the harms recognized, and not recognized, by American law. They offer insights on how societies do and should express what matters in assigning liability for human pain and loss.
Specialized.
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