1st Edition
Gender and Multiculturalism North-South Perspectives
1. Gender and Multiculturalism—Dislodging the Binary between Universal Human Rights and Culture/Tradition: North/South Perspectives 2. In the Name of What? Defusing the Rights-Culture Debate by Revisiting the Universals of Both Rights and Culture 3. Multiculturalism in South Africa: Dislodging the Binary between Universal Human Rights and Culture/Tradition 4. Territorial Pluralism and Family-Law Reform: Conflicts between Gender and Culture Rights in Federations, North and South 5. Beyond the Limitations of the Impasse: Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Legal Reforms in Religious Family Laws in India 6. Muslim Women and Human Rights: Does Political Transformation Equal Social Transformation? 7. Masculinities without Tradition 8. Reading the Racial Subtext of the Québécois Accommodation Controversy: An Analytics of Racialized Governmentality 9. Worrier Nation: Quebec’s Value Codes for Immigrants 10. Marking modernity: gender, bodies and politics in contemporary South African debates 11. ’Honour Killing’ in the Immigration Context: Multiculturalism and the Racialization of Violence Against Women
Biography
Amanda Gouws is Professor of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Her research focuses on women and citizenship, women’s representation and multiculturalism. She has published widely in these areas. In 2012 she received the Wilma Rule Award from the International Political Science Association for her paper on gender and multiculturalism.
Daiva Stasiulis is Professor of Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her current research examines the nexus between citizenship and migration in the Lebanese diaspora. She has published widely on transnationalism; migration and gender; Canadian policies of multiculturalism, immigration and anti-racism; and globalization and social movements.
