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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 theoretical themes from a feminist perspective:
The diverse contributors break new theoretical ground by providing detailed engagement with the concrete experiences of women and minorities who are caught in the dilemmas of gender and cultural justice. The collected chapters address sexual/cultural justice in a range of different countries, offering illuminating case studies on Britain, South Africa, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, Mexico, and the United States. Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice will be of strong interest to students and researchers working in the areas of gender and feminist theory, politics, law, philosophy and sociology.
This key text explores the relationship between cultural justice
and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light. The
authors challenge the framing of the '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.
The current legal and political context is perhaps more congenial
than ever before to considering claims made by minorities for the
protection of some aspect of their identity. Reasons of Identity
argues that diverse societies depend for their success on having
courts and legislatures which are capable of assessing these
identity claims in a fair and transparent manner. Despite the
ubiquity of these claims today, how public decision makers assess
minority identity claims in the course of decision making is only
vaguely understood and mostly ignored in normative political theory
and public policy analysis.
The political concept of recognition has introduced new ways of
thinking about the relationship between minorities and justice in
plural societies. But is a politics informed by recognition
valuable to minorities today? Critics contend that relations of
recognition allow dominant groups to distort and essentialize the
cultures of minorities, and to co-opt them through promises for
modest reforms rather than deeper structural changes to political
systems which are unjust. In contrast, struggles for
self-determination promise freedom from the constraints one group
imposes on another. But what does this kind of freedom amount to in
a globalized world? Can a politics of self-determination avoid the
risks of recognition? What factors help avoid these risks? What
role do political actors play in helping groups negotiate relations
of recognition and self-determination successfully?
The political concept of recognition has introduced new ways of thinking about the relationship between minorities and justice in plural societies. But is a politics informed by recognition valuable to minorities today? Contributors to this volume examine the successes and failures of struggles for recognition and self-determination in relation to claims of religious groups, cultural minorities, and Indigenous peoples on territories associated with Canada, the United States, Europe, Latin America, India, New Zealand, and Australia. They point to a distinctive set of challenges posed by a politics of recognition and self-determination to peoples seeking emancipation from unjust relations.
The current legal and political context is perhaps more congenial
than ever before to considering claims made by minorities for the
protection of some aspect of their identity. Reasons of Identity
argues that diverse societies depend for their success on having
courts and legislatures which are capable of assessing these
identity claims in a fair and transparent manner. Despite the
ubiquity of these claims today, how public decision makers assess
minority identity claims in the course of decision making is only
vaguely understood and mostly ignored in normative political theory
and public policy analysis.
Most discussions of multiculturalism and group rights focus on the relationship between the minority and the majority. This volume advances our understanding of minority rights by focusing on conflicts that arise within minority groups and by examining the different sorts of responses that the liberal state might have to these conflicts. Groups around the world are increasingly successful in maintaining or winning autonomy. In light of this trend, a crucial question emerges: what happens to individuals within groups who find that their group discriminates against them? This volume brings together distinguished scholars who examine this question by weaving together normative political theory with case studies drawn from South Africa, the United States, India, Canada, and Britain. Classical liberalism, deliberative democracy, feminism, and associative democracy are among the theoretical frameworks used to offer solutions to the complex set of issues raised by minorities within minorities.
The tension between diversity and equality is central to debates about multiculturalism, self-determination, identity, and pluralism. How, for example, can the claims of ethnic and religious groups be respected when they conflict with individual rights and liberal equality? Diversity and Equality critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies such as Canada. It develops new approaches in philosophy, law, politics, and anthropology to address the goals and problems associated with cultural, religious, and national minority rights. The contributors to this volume explore the conflicts between group demands for cultural autonomy and individual assertions of basic interests. At stake in these debates about rights and autonomy in multicultural and multinational democracies is the very meaning of freedom.
Most discussions of multiculturalism and group rights focus on the relationship between the minority and the majority. This volume advances our understanding of minority rights by focusing on conflicts that arise within minority groups and by examining the different sorts of responses that the liberal state might have to these conflicts. Groups around the world are increasingly successful in maintaining or winning autonomy. In light of this trend, a crucial question emerges: what happens to individuals within groups who find that their group discriminates against them? This volume brings together distinguished scholars who examine this question by weaving together normative political theory with case studies drawn from South Africa, the United States, India, Canada, and Britain. Classical liberalism, deliberative democracy, feminism, and associative democracy are among the theoretical frameworks used to offer solutions to the complex set of issues raised by minorities within minorities.
Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of raceand gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and healthcare. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial,and critical theory in a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses bothhigh and popular forms of culture, the deliberation of policy and itsexecution, and social movements as well as individual authors andtexts. The contributors establish connections among discourses of race,gender, and nation-building that have conditioned the formation ofCanada for more than one hundred years. At times provocative,Painting the Maple illuminates the challenges that lie aheadfor all Canadians who aspire to create a better future in a reimaginednation.
Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of raceand gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and healthcare. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial,and critical theory in a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses bothhigh and popular forms of culture, the deliberation of policy and itsexecution, and social movements as well as individual authors andtexts. The contributors establish connections among discourses of race,gender, and nation-building that have conditioned the formation ofCanada for more than one hundred years. At times provocative,Painting the Maple illuminates the challenges that lie aheadfor all Canadians who aspire to create a better future in a reimaginednation.
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