Monique Deveaux

Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a persuasive new argument for reconciling the tensions that arise when liberal democratic states try to protect two important kinds of equality: sexual equality and cultural equality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780199559244
• ISBN-10: 0199559244
• Artikelnr.: 25045523

Autorenporträt

Monique Deveaux is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change. She is the author of many books, including, "Gender & Justice in Multicultural Liberal States" (OUP, 2006) and "Cultural Pluralism in Liberal and Democratic Thought" (Cornell UP, 2000). She has co-edited a number of collections and has published an article on "Exploitation" in the Journal of Global Ethics (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Liberal Approaches to Conflicts of Culture
3: Women's Rights as Human Rights
4: Deliberative Democracy: 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: Conclusion: Legitimizing Democracy and Democratizing Legitimacy