Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism [Paperback]

This book explores the tensions that arise in pursuing justice for minority groups and gender equality.Sarah Song explores the tensions between minority group rights and gender equality, drawing on detailed case studies of gendered cultural conflicts to offer a fresh perspective on multicultural politics. She examines the role of intercultural interactions in shaping such conflicts and argues for resolving them through intercultural democratic dialogue.Sarah Song explores the tensions between minority group rights and gender equality, drawing on detailed case studies of gendered cultural conflicts to offer a fresh perspective on multicultural politics. She examines the role of intercultural interactions in shaping such conflicts and argues for resolving them through intercultural democratic dialogue.Justice, Gender and the Politics of Multiculturalism explores the tensions that arise when culturally diverse democratic states pursue both justice for religious and cultural minorities and justice for women. Sarah Song provides a distinctive argument about the circumstances under which egalitarian justice requires special accommodations for cultural minorities while emphasizing the value of gender equality as an important limit on cultural accommodation. Drawing on detailed case studies of gendered cultural conflicts, including conflicts over the 'cultural defense' in criminal law, aboriginal membership rules and polygamy, Song offers a fresh perspective on multicultural politics by examining the role of intercultural interactions in shaping such conflicts. In particular, she demonstrates the different ways that majority institutions have reinforced gender inequality in minority communities and, in light of this, argues in favour of resolving gendered cultural dilemmas through intercultural democratic dialogue.1. Introduction; Part I: 2. The concept of culture in political theory; 3. Justice and multiculturalism: an egalitarian argument for cultural accommodation; Part lÃU