Womens Rights As Multicultural Claims Reconfiguring Gender And Diversity In Political Philosophy Monica Mookherjee by Monica Mookherjee 9780748632312, 074863231X instant download after payment.

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Reconciles women's rights with multiculturalism - a central problem in contemporary political theory

Monica Mookerjee reconfigures feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity, by drawing on Iris Young's idea of 'gender as seriality'. she argues that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural justice.

• The resurgence of the feminist controversy over the Hindu practice of widow-immolation (sati)
• Gender-discriminatory Muslim divorce laws in the famous Shah Bano controversy in India
• Forced marriage in South Asian communities in the UK
• The rights of evangelical Christian parents to exempt their children from secular education
• The recent controversy about the rights of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in state schools in France