Bird, C. (2004). Status, identity, and respect. Political Theory, 32(2), 207-232.

This essay critically examines the idea that "identity" or "difference" might be proper objects of principles of respect. The author suggests that this idea makes sense only at the cost of the egalitarianism to which its adherents usually subscribe. The essay also shows that liberal interpretations of respect can evade this problem and reaches this conclusion on the basis of an analysis of the concept of respect and its connections with notions of status.