Gender And Multiculturalism

Author : Amanda Gouws,Daiva Stasiulis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317667537

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Gender and Multiculturalism by Amanda Gouws,Daiva Stasiulis Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Moller Okin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400840991

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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? by Susan Moller Okin Pdf

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.

Author : Ruth Rubio-Marín,Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198829621

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Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism by Ruth Rubio-Marín,Will Kymlicka Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Song
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139466653

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Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism by Sarah Song Pdf

Justice, Gender and the Politics of Multiculturalism explores the tensions that arise when culturally diverse democratic states pursue both justice for religious and cultural minorities and justice for women. Sarah Song provides a distinctive argument about the circumstances under which egalitarian justice requires special accommodations for cultural minorities while emphasizing the value of gender equality as an important limit on cultural accommodation. Drawing on detailed case studies of gendered cultural conflicts, including conflicts over the 'cultural defense' in criminal law, aboriginal membership rules and polygamy, Song offers a fresh perspective on multicultural politics by examining the role of intercultural interactions in shaping such conflicts. In particular, she demonstrates the different ways that majority institutions have reinforced gender inequality in minority communities and, in light of this, argues in favour of resolving gendered cultural dilemmas through intercultural democratic dialogue.

Author : Himani Bannerji
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1551301725

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The Dark Side of the Nation by Himani Bannerji Pdf

These feminist Marxist and anti-racist essays speak to important political issues. Though they begin from experiences of non-white people living in Canada, they provide a critical theoretical perspective capable of exploring similar issues in other western and also third world countries. This reading of 'difference' includes but extends beyond the cultural and the discursive into political economy, state, and ideology. It cuts through conventional paradigms of current debates on multiculturalism. In particular, these essays take up the notion of 'Canada' - as the nation and the state - as an unsettled ground of contested hegemonies. They particularly draw attention to how the state of Canada is an unfinished one, and how the discourse of culture helps it to advance the legitimation claim which is needed by any state, especially one arising in a colonial context, with unsolved nationality problems. The myth of the 'two founding peoples', anglos and francophones, has always conveniently ignored the reality of First Nations. who may have a history of being indentured and politically marginalised and only begin struggling for political enfranchisement in their new homeland.

Author : Carl A. Grant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0750708808

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Multicultural Research by Carl A. Grant Pdf

Multicultural Research presents the views and perspectives of eighteen distinguised researchers and scholars on what guides them during their research and writing in the area of equity, social justice and power.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : 1107181798

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Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism by Anonim Pdf

Explores the tensions that arise in pursuing justice for minority groups and gender equality.

Author : Monica Mookherjee
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748687930

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Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims by Monica Mookherjee Pdf

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

Author : Anne Phillips
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691141152

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Multiculturalism Without Culture by Anne Phillips Pdf

Multiculturalism without culture -- Between culture and cosmos -- What's wrong with cultural defence? -- Autonomy, coercion, and constraint -- Exit and voice -- Multiculturalism without groups?

Author : Monique Deveaux
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191537288

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Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States by Monique Deveaux Pdf

Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States explores the challenges that culturally plural liberal states face when they hold competing political commitments to cultural rights and sexual equality, and advances an argument for resolving such dilemmas through democratic dialogue and negotiation. Exploring recent examples of gendered cultural conflicts in South Africa, Canada, and Britain, this book shows that there is an urgent need for workable strategies to mediate the antagonisms between the cultural practices and arrangements of certain ethno-cultural and religious groups and the norms and constitutional rights endorsed by liberal states. Yet such strategies will be successful only insofar as they can resolve conflicts without either reinforcing women's subordination within cultural communities or unjustly dismissing calls for cultural recognition and forms of self-governance. To this end, the book develops an approach to mediating cultural tensions that takes seriously the demands of justice by cultural and religious minorities in liberal democratic states. Grounded in an argument for democratic legitimacy, this approach invokes norms of political inclusion and democratic dialogue, and highlights negotiation and compromise as the best vehicles for arriving at resolutions to conflicts of cultural value. However, it also reconceives the basis of democratic legitimacy so as to include not merely formal expressions of political consent, but also a range of non-formal democratic activity that occur in the private and social spheres, from acts of cultural reinvention and subversion to outright expressions of dissent and cultural refusal.

Author : Sarah Song
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:848751752

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Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism by Sarah Song Pdf

Author : Anne Phillips
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745659275

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Gender and Culture by Anne Phillips Pdf

The idea that respect for cultural diversity conflicts with gender equality is now a staple of both public and academic debate. Yet discussion of these tensions is marred by exaggerated talk of cultural difference, leading to ethnic reductionism, cultural stereotyping, and a hierarchy of traditional and modern. In this volume, Anne Phillips firmly rejects the notion that ‘culture’ might justify the oppression of women, but also queries the stereotypical binaries that have represented people from ethnocultural minorities as peculiarly resistant to gender equality. The questions addressed include the relationship between universalism and cultural relativism, how to distinguish valid generalisation from either gender or cultural essentialism, and how to recognise women as agents rather than captives of culture. The discussions are illuminated by reference to legal cases and policy interventions, with a particular focus on forced marriage and cultural defence.

Author : Donald B. Pope-Davis,Hardin L. K. Coleman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761911593

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The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in Multicultural Counseling by Donald B. Pope-Davis,Hardin L. K. Coleman Pdf

Beginning with a survey of how the interplay of variables such as class, gender & race interact in the development of an individual in a pluralistic society, this text presents theories on how to integrate issues of class, gender & race into counselling theory.

Author : Associate Professor of Political Science Monique Deveaux,Monique Deveaux
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199289790

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Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States by Associate Professor of Political Science Monique Deveaux,Monique Deveaux Pdf

This book offers a persuasive new argument for reconciling the tensions that arise when liberal democratic states try to protect two important kinds of equality: sexual equality and cultural equality.

Author : Carl A. Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135707651

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Multicultural Research by Carl A. Grant Pdf

With contributions from leading American authors in the field of multicultural research, this text both dissects the multicultural issues facing education in the USA, and reveals the methods and procedures of research in this area.