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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? / Susan Moller Okin; ed. by Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, Martha C. Nussbaum.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691004327
  • 9781400840991
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Human Equality -- PART 1. Is Multiculturalism Bad forWomen? -- PART 2. Responses -- Whose Culture? -- Liberal Complacencies -- "My Culture Made Me Do It" -- Is Western Patriarchal Feminism Good for Third World / Minority Women? -- Siding with the Underdogs -- "Barbaric" Rituals? -- Promises We Should All Keep in Common Cause -- Between Norms and Choices -- A Varied Moral World -- Culture beyond Gender -- Liberalism's Sacred Cow -- Should Sex Equality Law Apply to Religious Institutions? -- How Perfect Should One Be? And Whose Culture Is? -- Culture Constrains -- A Plea for Difficulty -- PART 3. Reply -- NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Human Equality -- PART 1. Is Multiculturalism Bad forWomen? -- PART 2. Responses -- Whose Culture? -- Liberal Complacencies -- "My Culture Made Me Do It" -- Is Western Patriarchal Feminism Good for Third World / Minority Women? -- Siding with the Underdogs -- "Barbaric" Rituals? -- Promises We Should All Keep in Common Cause -- Between Norms and Choices -- A Varied Moral World -- Culture beyond Gender -- Liberalism's Sacred Cow -- Should Sex Equality Law Apply to Religious Institutions? -- How Perfect Should One Be? And Whose Culture Is? -- Culture Constrains -- A Plea for Difficulty -- PART 3. Reply -- NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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