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

Mookherjee, Monica

 
9780748642960: Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims: Reconfiguring Gender and Diversity in Political Philosophy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 074864296X ISBN 13: 9780748642960
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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 this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims.The argument is worked through in the context of a set of difficult 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 India*forced marriage in South Asian communities in the UK*the rights of evangelical Christian parents to exempt their children from secular education*the recent controversy about the rights of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in state schools in FranceThis valuable and innovative perspective on an important contemporary issue aims to stimulate debate about a set of important concepts central to discourses of feminism and multiculturalism in contemporary political philosophy, including human rights and capabilities, toleration, citizenship practices, cultural rights, the ethic of care, communitarianism and the politics of recognition.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Monica Mookherjee is a lecturer in Political Philosophy in the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Keele University. Her main research interests lie in contemporary political philosophy, feminist theory and the politics of multiculturalism. She is the author of a number of journal articles in Critical Review of International Political Philosophy, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Res Publica.



Monica Mookherjee is Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Keele

Von der hinteren Coverseite

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 this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims. The argument is worked through in the context of a set of difficult 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 India *forced marriage in South Asian communities in the UK *the rights of evangelical Christian parents to exempt their children from secular education *the recent controversy about the rights of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in state schools in France This valuable and innovative perspective on an important contemporary issue aims to stimulate debate about a set of important concepts central to discourses of feminism and multiculturalism in contemporary political philosophy, including human rights and capabilities, toleration, citizenship practices, cultural rights, the ethic of care, communitarianism and the politics of recognition.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
074864296X
ISBN 13 
9780748642960
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780748632794: Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims: Reconfiguring Gender and Diversity in Political Philosophy

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0748632794 ISBN 13:  9780748632794
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2009
Hardcover