Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 November 2006
- ISBN 9780199289790
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 240x160x20 mm
- Weight 589 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book offers a persuasive new argument for reconciling the tensions that arise when liberal democratic states try to protect two important kinds of equality: sexual equality and cultural equality.
MoreLong description:
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.
Deveaux's book is a breath of fresh air-it combines a theory-based approach with high-quality empirical research from several locations around the world. The book is at its best when describing issues of gender justice in diverse areas-Canada, South Africa, and Great Britain...and is likely to provoke debate about its theoretical implications while providing useful case studies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Liberal Approaches to Conflicts of Culture
Women's Rights as Human Rights
Deliberative Democracy: Empowering Cultural Communities
Native Rights and Liberal Sex Equality: The Case of Canada
Personal Autonomy and Cultural Tradition
Gender and Cultural Justice in South Africa
Conclusion: Legitimizing Democracy and Democratizing Legitimacy
