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Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims : Reconfiguring Gender and Diversity in Political Philosophy / Monica Mookherjee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748632794
  • 9780748632312
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Beyond the Liberal Dilemma – Rights as Trumps, as Recognition and as Capability -- 2. The Right to Mediation – Recognising the Cultural Particularity of Interests and Vulnerabilities -- 3. Plural Autonomy – Force, Endorsement and Cultural Diversity -- 4. Ordering Souls without Intolerance – Towards a Constrained Presumption for Educational Accommodation -- 5. Unveiling Mediation and Autonomy – Women’s Rights as Citizenship and Reciprocity -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Beyond the Liberal Dilemma – Rights as Trumps, as Recognition and as Capability -- 2. The Right to Mediation – Recognising the Cultural Particularity of Interests and Vulnerabilities -- 3. Plural Autonomy – Force, Endorsement and Cultural Diversity -- 4. Ordering Souls without Intolerance – Towards a Constrained Presumption for Educational Accommodation -- 5. Unveiling Mediation and Autonomy – Women’s Rights as Citizenship and Reciprocity -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

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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"

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In English.

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