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Women´s Rights as Multicultural Claims: Reconfiguring Gender and Diversity in Political Philosophy
Monica Mookherjee
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Paperback. 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 claims. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
How can one negotiate and integrate the claims of feminism and multiculturalism through a discourse of rights? This is a timely question: the apparent opposition between feminist and multicultural justice is a central problem in contemporary political theory. It also responds to a deep suspicion about invoking a political discourse that is accused of being either eurocentric, androcentric or both. In this book Monica Mookherjee draws on Iris Young's idea of 'gender as seriality' in order to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. She contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that ... Read more
How can one negotiate and integrate the claims of feminism and multiculturalism through a discourse of rights? This is a timely question: the apparent opposition between feminist and multicultural justice is a central problem in contemporary political theory. It also responds to a deep suspicion about invoking a political discourse that is accused of being either eurocentric, androcentric or both. In this book Monica Mookherjee draws on Iris Young's idea of 'gender as seriality' in order to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. She contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748642960
SKU
V9780748642960
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About Monica Mookherjee
Catalogue: shoutline, blurb. Reconfigures feminism so that it can respond to cultural diversity Case studies include the Hindu practice of widow-immolation, forced marriage in South Asian communities in the UK, the right of evangelical Christian parents to exempt their children from secular education and the recent controversy about the right of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in state schools ... Read more
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