Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims: Reconfiguring Gender and Diversity in Political Philosophy

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748632794');Reconciles women's rights with multiculturalism - a central problem in contemporary political theory Monica Mookerjee reconfigures feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity, by drawing on Iris Young's idea of 'ge...

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1. Verfasser: Mookherjee, Monica (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748632794');Reconciles women's rights with multiculturalism - a central problem in contemporary political theory Monica Mookerjee reconfigures feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity, by drawing on Iris Young's idea of 'gender as seriality'. she argues that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural justice. Works through a set of dilemmas in modern liberal democracies:The resurgence of the feminist controversy over the Hindu practice of widow-immolation (sati)Gender-discriminatory Muslim divorce laws in the famous Shah Bano controversy in IndiaForced marriage in South Asian communities in the UKThe rights of evangelical Christian parents to exempt their children from secular educationThe recent controversy about the rights of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in state schools in France
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (208 Seiten)
ISBN:9780748632312
DOI:10.1515/9780748632312