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Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice: Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice book cover

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Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice

Edited By Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon, Avigail Eisenberg Copyright 2007
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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This key volume explores the relationship between cultural justice and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light. The authors challenge the framing of ‘feminism and multiculturalism’ as one of inevitable conflict, as well as the portrayal of liberal sexual equality and cultural rights as irreconcilable, moving the debate beyond the culture/gender impasse. Focusing on three... Read more

PART I: DEFINING AND CHALLENGING ‘CULTURE’ AND ‘CULTURAL IDENTITY

1. Anne Phillips- What is ‘Culture’?

2. Rita Dhamoon - The Politics of Cultural Contestation

3. Barbara Arneil- Cultural Protections vs. Cultural Justice: Post-colonialism,

Agonistic Justice and the Limitations of Liberal Theory

4. Gaurav Desai- Traveling Culture and the ‘Cultural Defense’

PART II: AUTONOMY, CULTURE AND GENDER

5. Marilyn Friedman- Women’s Rights, Oppressed Minorities, and the Liberal State

6. Catriona Mackenzie- Relational Autonomy, Sexual Justice and Cultural Pluralism 7. Sawitri Saharso- Is Freedom of the Will but a Western Illusion? Individual

Autonomy, Gender and Multicultural Judgement

8. Monique Deveaux- Personal Autonomy and Cultural Tradition: The Arranged Marriage Debate in Britain

PART III: GENDER, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY

9. María Pía Lara- Globalizing Women's Rights: Overcoming the Apartheid

10. Gertrude Fester- Reconciling Multiculturalism with Democracy: Challenges for South Africa

11. Avigail Eisenberg- Religious arbitration and multiculturalism: The debate over Sharia law in Canada

Biography

Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon, Avigail Eisenberg

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