Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States
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More This book 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.
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Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States
The Case of Canada. Liberal Approaches to Conflicts of Culture 3.
Women's Rights as Human Rights 4. Empowering Cultural Communities 5. Native Rights and Liberal Sex Equality: The Case of Canada 6.
Personal Autonomy and Cultural Tradition 7. Gender and Cultural Justice in South Africa 8.
Legitimizing Democracy and Democratizing Legitimacy. Monique Deveaux is Associate Professor of Political Science at Williams College, where she teaches courses in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice forthcoming, Routledge , and author of articles on topics ranging from cultural toleration to feminist moral theory in such journals as Political Theory, Social and Theory and Practice, and Political Studies.
She holds a Ph. The book is at its best when describing issues of gender justice in diverse areas-Canada, South Africa, and Great Britain Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
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. Legitimizing Democracy and Democratizing Legitimacy. 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 culturalreinvention and subversion to outright expressions of dissent and cultural refusal. Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States Monique Deveaux Critically engages with very recent work on multiculturalism by political theorists and philosophers Helps reader to understand the drawbacks to deliberative democracy theory, and how it might be reconceived. Varieties of Governance in China Jie Lu. Duncan Ivison - unknown. Arash Abizadeh - - Nations and Nationalism 10 3:
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