Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims
Title | Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Mookherjee |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2011-03-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0748687939 |
This book attempts to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. The author contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural cl
Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims
Title | Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Mookherjee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Indigenous woman |
ISBN | 9788131604632 |
Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
Title | Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Moller Okin |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 1999-08-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1400840996 |
Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence. These practices and conditions are standard in some parts of the world. Do demands for multiculturalism--and certain minority group rights in particular--make them more likely to continue and to spread to liberal democracies? Are there fundamental conflicts between our commitment to gender equity and our increasing desire to respect the customs of minority cultures or religions? In this book, the eminent feminist Susan Moller Okin and fifteen of the world's leading thinkers about feminism and multiculturalism explore these unsettling questions in a provocative, passionate, and illuminating debate. Okin opens by arguing that some group rights can, in fact, endanger women. She points, for example, to the French government's giving thousands of male immigrants special permission to bring multiple wives into the country, despite French laws against polygamy and the wives' own bitter opposition to the practice. Okin argues that if we agree that women should not be disadvantaged because of their sex, we should not accept group rights that permit oppressive practices on the grounds that they are fundamental to minority cultures whose existence may otherwise be threatened. In reply, some respondents reject Okin's position outright, contending that her views are rooted in a moral universalism that is blind to cultural difference. Others quarrel with Okin's focus on gender, or argue that we should be careful about which group rights we permit, but not reject the category of group rights altogether. Okin concludes with a rebuttal, clarifying, adjusting, and extending her original position. These incisive and accessible essays--expanded from their original publication in Boston Review and including four new contributions--are indispensable reading for anyone interested in one of the most contentious social and political issues today. The diverse contributors, in addition to Okin, are Azizah al-Hibri, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Homi Bhabha, Sander Gilman, Janet Halley, Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka, Martha Nussbaum, Bhikhu Parekh, Katha Pollitt, Robert Post, Joseph Raz, Saskia Sassen, Cass Sunstein, and Yael Tamir.
Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism
Title | Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Rubio-Marín |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0198829620 |
Discussion of the participation of minority women, both at state level and in cultural and religious practices. Worldwide, legislation such as gender quotas nor legal recognition given to religious law have benefitted minority women. The volume explores the relation in theory and practice between gender equality and multicultural feminism. The authors analyze different cases from Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa regarding state law, customary law, religious law and indigenous law.
Multicultural Jurisdictions
Title | Multicultural Jurisdictions PDF eBook |
Author | Ayelet Shachar |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2001-09-06 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780521776745 |
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Gender and Multiculturalism
Title | Gender and Multiculturalism PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Gouws |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 269 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317667549 |
Multiculturalism is a concept that has been stretched to include a variety of political conditions, mainly in countries that have liberal democratic political systems and traditions. In this North/South ‘comparison’ we illuminate remedies pursued by governments and various political interests to address the binary. Tensions of culture and rights may not be the same everywhere. An interesting point of comparison is in the treatment of liberalism – often assumed in the global North to be the universal norms to be defended, whereas in the global South, liberalism itself may be viewed as the problem. Colonial histories are fraught with discriminatory legislation aimed at accommodating indigenous populations, often a trade-off for more structural redistributive justice through, for example, land reform. In Africa, for example, the codification of customary law has reinforced misogynistic and static interpretations of ‘African culture’. This book will show how varied and complex the embodiment of multiculturalism as a political practice, or policy discourse in different political contexts can be, and how often the outcome of multicultural discourses creates a binary between culture and universal human rights. The aim of this book is to grapple with dislodging this binary. This book was published as a special issue of Politikon.
Between Woman and Nation
Title | Between Woman and Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Caren Kaplan |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780822323228 |
An examination of nationalism and gender.