Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States explores the
challenges that culturally plural liberal states face when they
hold competing political commitments to cultural rights and sexual
equality, and advances an argument for resolving such dilemmas
through democratic dialogue and negotiation. Exploring recent
examples of gendered cultural conflicts in South Africa, Canada,
and Britain, this book shows that there is an urgent need for
workable strategies to mediate the antagonisms between the cultural
practices and arrangements of certain ethno-cultural and religious
groups and the norms and constitutional rights endorsed by liberal
states. Yet such strategies will be successful only insofar as they
can resolve conflicts without either reinforcing women's
subordination within cultural communities or unjustly dismissing
calls for cultural recognition and forms of self-governance. To
this end, the book develops an approach to mediating cultural
tensions that takes seriously the demands of justice by cultural
and religious minorities in liberal democratic states. Grounded in
an argument for democratic legitimacy, this approach invokes norms
of political inclusion and democratic dialogue, and highlights
negotiation and compromise as the best vehicles for arriving at
resolutions to conflicts of cultural value. However, it also
reconceives the basis of democratic legitimacy so as to include not
merely formal expressions of political consent, but also a range of
non-formal democratic activity that occur in the private and social
spheres, from acts of cultural reinvention and subversion to
outright expressions of dissent and cultural refusal. Winner of the
CB Macpherson Prize for Best Book in the field of Political Theory.
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