Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: mapping the terrain -- Three challenges -- The politics of diversity -- Chapter outlines -- Notes -- 2 Diversity politics: beyond a pluralism without limits -- Eruv troubles -- Identity politics and the eruv -- Diversity's subject -- The complex character of freedom -- The right to privacy -- The power of harm -- Eggshell skulls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 From blokes to smokes: theorising the difference -- Understanding oppression -- The limits of axes and groups -- Organising principles of inequality -- A social dynamic approach to inequality -- Smokers: the new oppressed? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Towards equality of power -- Towards an equality of selves -- Equal resources and recognition -- Equality of power -- Undoing gender -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Normative encounters: the politics of same-sex spousal equality -- Normatively organising the social -- Revisiting proper place and the public/private -- Social norms and the pursuit of spousal equality -- Against proper place? -- From kith to kin -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Getting in the way: the social power of nuisance -- Social norms underpinning nuisance -- Turning mental space -- Proper place -- Consolidating inequality -- Being a nuisance -- Nuisance as a counter-discourse -- Notes -- 7 Oppositional routines: the problem of embedding change -- Creating sustainable practices -- Social pathways -- De facto and de jure pathways -- Environmental conditions -- Confronting an inhospitable environment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Safeguarding community pathways: 'possibly the happiest school in the world' and other porous places -- Sustaining communities through their boundaries -- The Greenham Common peace camp -- Local exchange trading systems -- Summerhill School.

The potential of permeability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Diversity through equality -- Recentring inequality -- Beyond sameness -- Mobilising at the normative interface -- Bibliography -- Index.