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Author Okin, Susan Moller.

Title Is multiculturalism bad for women? / Susan Moller Okin with respondents ; edited by Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha C. Nussbaum.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42 O41I    Check Shelf
Description vi, 146 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Is multiculturalism bad for women? / Susan Moller Okin -- Whose culture? / Katha Pollitt -- Liberal complacencies / Will Kymlicka -- My culture made me do it / Bonnie Honig -- Is western patriarchal feminism good for third world / minority women? / Azizah Y. al-Hibri -- Siding with the underdogs / Yael Tamir -- Barbaric rituals? / Sander L. Gilman -- Promises we should all keep in common cause / Abdullahi An-Nai̓m -- Between norms and choices / Robert Post -- Varied moral world / Bhikhu Parekh -- Culture beyond gender / Saskia Sassen -- Liberalism's sacred cow / Homi K. Bhabha -- Should sex equality law apply to religious institutions? / Cass R. Sunstein -- How perfect should one be? And whose culture is? / Joseph Raz -- Culture constrains / Janet E. Halley -- Plea for difficulty / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Reply / Susan Moller Okin.
Summary This book brings together impressively varied voices who help to set the terms for discussing the relationship of feminism and multiculturalism. They show in no uncertain terms that feminists have something important to say to multiculturalists, and vice versa.
Processing Action Self-Renewing 2017 UoY
Subject Minority women -- Social conditions.
Sex discrimination against women.
Multiculturalism.
Culture conflict.
Feminism.
Minority women -- Social conditions.
Sex discrimination against women.
Multiculturalism.
Culture conflict.
Feminism.
Culture conflict. (OCoLC)fst00885099
Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
Minority women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01023432
Multiculturalism. (OCoLC)fst01028836
Sex discrimination against women. (OCoLC)fst01114376
Multiculturele samenlevingen.
Vrouwendiscriminatie.
Feminisme.
Indexed Term Mujeres Condiciones sociales.
Discriminación sexual.
Feminismo.
Added Author Cohen, Joshua, 1951-
Howard, Matthew, 1971-
Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
Other Form: Online version: Okin, Susan Moller. Is multiculturalism bad for women? Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1999] 9781400840991 (OCoLC)759160421
ISBN 0691004315 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780691004310 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0691004323 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780691004327 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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