This volume takes a look at the gender of tax policy around the world. Contributors based in eight different countries examine the effects that gender norms and practices have had in shaping tax law and policy, and how taxation in turn impacts upon the possibilities for equality along gender, race, class, sexuality and other lines.
Contents: I. The Culture and Politics of Discrimination in Historical Perspective: C. Salvaterra, A Crisis in the Multiethnic Society of Ancient Alexandria (66 A.D.), S. Ellis, Racial Discrimination in Later Medieval Ireland, R. Eßer, Cultures in Contact: the Representation of ‘the Other’ in Early Modern German Travel Narratives, L. Frattarelli Fischer, Jews in Tuscany in the Modern Age, V. Mallia-Milanes, Images of the Other: Venice’s Perception of the Knights of Malta, W. O’Reilly, Divide et Impera: Race, Ethnicity and Administration in Early 18th-Century Habsburg Hungary. II. Discrimination, Imperialism and Fascism, B. Waaldijk, Subjects and Citizens: Gender and Racial Discrimination in Dutch Colonialism at the End of the 19th Century, D. McCracken, Collaborators or Liberators? Irish Race Attitudes in the South African Historical Context, K. Bochmann, Racism and/or Nationalism: Minorities and Language Policy under Fascist Regimes, M. O’Driscoll, The ‘Jewish Question’?: Irish Refugee Policy and Charles Bewley, 1933-39, R. Genov, I. Baeva, “Incomprehension of the Nature of the Race Question?:Saving the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust, S. Beer, Hunting the Discriminators. Denazification in Austria, 1945-1957, III. Linguistic and Ethnic Plurality, Past and Present, G. Hálfdanarson, Language, Ethnicity and Nationalism: the Case of Iceland, M. Harris, Religious Divisions, Discrimination and the Struggle for Dominance in Northern Ireland, M. Klemencic?, The Serbs in Croatia: from Majority Ethno-Nation to Ethnic Minority, J. Kangilaski, The Integration of the Russian Minority in Estonia.