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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Okin, Susan Moller,
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Hibri, Azizah Y.,; An-Na' Im, Abdullahi,; Bhabha, Homi K.,; Cohen, Joshua,; Gilman, Sander L .,; Halley, Janet E.,; Honig, Bonnie,; Howard, Matthew,; Kymlicka, Will,; Nussbaum, Martha C .,; Okin, Susan Moller,; Parekh, Bhikhu,; Pollitt, Katha,; Post, Robert,; Raz, Joseph,; Sassen, Saskia,; Sunstein, Cass R.,; Tamir, Yael,
• HerausgeberIn: Cohen, Joshua,; Howard, Matthew,; Nussbaum, Martha C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)

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 standar...

Table of 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