Free Download Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPN1D4S3 | 2023 | 17 hours and 13 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 474 MB
Author: Elisabeth Griffith
Narrator: Elisabeth Griffith
The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites.

Eliane Saadé, "The Concept of Justice and Equality "
English | ISBN: 3110447193 | 2015 | 223 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1076 KB + 1038 KB
Unless considered on a practical level, where a precise distribution of social goods is chosen, John Rawls's and Gerald Cohen's approaches to social justice cannot be complementary. Their disagreement about justice and its principles calls for a choice, which opts either for the Rawlsian theory or for the Cohenian one. What is the more plausible approach to social justice? This work compares both approaches and aims to defend Cohen's position in the light of two considerations. It answers the philosophical question about the analysis of the idea of justice, which puts the virtue of justice in its philosophical context. It, however, presents a method everyone can apply in order to arrive at the fundamental principles of justice by employing the power of reason. An analysis of the concept of justice based on the power of reason should seek to uncover the ultimate nature of justice, which is independent of facts and of other virtues. Once exposed, the understanding of justice arrived at should inform social institutions and determine people's daily decisions. A just society is therefore a society where just persons and just institutions exhibit the virtue of justice.

Shreya Atrey, "Exponential Inequalities: Equality Law in Times of Crisis"
English | ISBN: 0192872990 | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This thoughtfully edited volume explores the operation of equality and discrimination law in times of crisis. It aims to understand how existing inequalities are exacerbated in crises and whether equality law has the tools to understand and address this contingency.

Anthony M. Kennedy, "The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality, Gift Edition: As Delivered by Justice Anthony Kennedy"
English | ISBN: 1612195326 | 2015 | 64 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A beautifully packaged gift edition of Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, Justice Anthony Kennedy's landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality

Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940 By Alejandra Bronfman
2004 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0807855634 | PDF | 8 MB
In the years following Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra Bronfman traces the formation of Cuba's multiracial legal and political order in the early Republic by exploring the responses of social scientists, such as Fernando Ortiz and Israel Castellanos, and black and mulatto activists, including Gustavo Urrutia and Nicolas Guillen, to the paradoxes of modern nationhood.Law, science, and the social sciences--which, during this era, enjoyed growing status in Cuba as well as in many other countries--played central roles in producing knowledge and shaping social categories in postindependence Cuba. Anthropologists, criminologists, and eugenicists embarked on projects intended to employ the tools of science to rid Cuba of the last vestiges of a colonial past. Meanwhile, the legal arena created both new freedoms and new modes of repression. Black and mulatto intellectuals and activists, working to ensure that citizenship offered concrete advantages rather than empty promises, appropriated changing social scientific and legal categories and turned them to their own uses. In the midst of several decades of intermittent racial violence and expanding social and political mobilization by Cubans of African descent, debates among intellectuals and activists, state officials, and legislators transformed not only understandings of race, but also the terms of citizenship for all Cubans.

Joanna Bourke Martignoni, "Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food "
English | ISBN: 1032063769 | 2022 | 290 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective.

Prudence Crandall's Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education by Donald E. Williams
English | June 10th, 2014 | ISBN: 0819574708, 0819576468 | 476 pages | True EPUB | 4.02 MB
Prudence Crandall was a schoolteacher who fought to integrate her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, and educate black women in the early nineteenth century. When Crandall accepted a black woman as a student, she unleashed a storm of controversy that catapulted her to national notoriety, and drew the attention of the most significant pro- and anti-slavery activists of the day. The Connecticut state legislature passed its infamous Black Law in an attempt to close down her school. Arrested and jailed, Crandall's legal legacy had a lasting impact-Crandall v. State was the first full-throated civil rights case in U.S. history.

Poverty, Equality, and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan By Deborah J. Milly
1999 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0674009584 | PDF | 182 MB
In contrast to the large indigent population in Japan in the 1950s, very few Japanese live in poverty in the 1990s. This text explains the Japanese government's decision to respond to poverty by promoting equality as the basis for a social compromise. Deborah Milly argues that to account for why and how political actors crafted a programme that won acceptance, we must look beyond them and identify how they relied on knowledge and normative arguments.

Lennart J. Lundqvist, "Housing Policy and Equality: A Comparative Study of Tenure Conversions and Their Effects "
English | ISBN: 1032437693 | 2023 | 250 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Originally published in 1986, this book compares and evaluates the effects of converting rental housing into owner occupancy in the USA, the UK and Germany. The evaluation examines the pros and cons of such conversions. The conversion controversy is more than a technical discussion of outcomes of different housing strategies. By viewing tenure conversions as strategies for limiting direct governmental involvement, this comparative evaluation indicates something about the effects not only on housing, but on general social welfare, of such strategies.

Economic Equality in the Co-Operative Commonwealth
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781003368410 | 380 pages | True PDF | 21.07 MB
Originally published in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression, this book discussed the possibility of a new and orderly economic system to realize social justice. The author argued that nothing but the complete equality of reward could ensure a stable order. Although utopian in its outlook, the book addressed many of the concerns of the (then) existing order. The book explains the origin of differences between different people, give a brief account of the economic theory of the capitalist system and investigates the economics of the growing demand for social and economic equality. It then discusses in more detail the most efficient economic organization to provide and safeguard the welfare of the population on the basis of equality, followed by a discussion of the economic principles involved in price-fixing and foreign trade.