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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

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ISBN-10: 0691004323

ISBN-13: 9780691004327

Edition: 1999

Authors: Susan Moller Okin, Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, Martha C. Nussbaum, Ruth Sloan

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Exploring the question of whether demands for multiculturalism may actually be harmful for women, these essays add to a contenious social and political debate.
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/29/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Joshua Cohen is Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University, and a member of the faculty of Apple University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 25 books. His most recent books are Philosophy, Politics, Democracy (2009); The Arc of the Moral Universe (2011); and Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (2012). Since 1991, Cohen has been editor of the Boston Review.

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.

Introduction: Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Human Equality
Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
Responses Whose Culture?
Liberal Complacencies
"My Culture Made Me Do It"
Is Western Patriarchal Feminism Good for Third World / Minority Women?
Siding With the Underdogs
"Barbaric" Rituals?
Promises We should All Keep in Common Cause
Between Norms and Choices
A Varied Moral World
Culture beyond Gender
Liberalism's Sacred Cow
Should Sex Equality Law Apply to Religious Institutions?
How Perfect Should One Be? And Whose Culture Is?
Culture Constrains
A Plea for Difficulty
Reply
Notes
Contributors