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Women's rights as multicultural claims : reconfiguring gender and diversity in political philosophy / Monica Mookherjee

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015)

978-0-7486-3231-2 ( : ebook)

978-0-7486-3279-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-7486-4296-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 967390226     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HQ1236

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LOC-SH: Minority women -- Social conditions ; Indigenous women -- Social conditions ; Feminism -- Political aspects ; Multiculturalism ; Women's rights

Women's rights ; Minority women ; Social conditions ; Indigenous women ; Social conditions ; Feminism ; Political aspects ; Multiculturalism

This book attempts to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. The author contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural claims

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Beyond the liberal dilemma -- rights as trumps, as recognition and as capability -- The right to mediation -- recognising the cultural particularity of interests and vulnerabilities -- Plural autonomy -- force, endorsement and cultural diversity -- Ordering souls without intolerance -- towards a constrained presumption for educational accommodation -- Unveiling meditation and autonomy -- women's rights as citizenship and reciprocity -- Epilogue