Minorities within Minorities

Avigail Eisenberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. She is author of Reconstructing Political Pluralism and co-editor of Painting the Maple: Essays on Race, Gender and the Construction of Canada. Jeff Spinner-Halev is the Schlesinger Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Liberal State and Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship.

"...a valuable and much welcomed contribution to studies in contemporary phenomenology and Husserl scholarship." --Christopher McTavish, Loyola University of Chicago: Philosophy in Review

• Introduction Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev; Part I. Toleration: 1. Tolerable liberalism Melissa S. Williams; 2. A liberalism of conscience Lucas Swaine; Part II. Equality: 3. Multiculturalism and feminism: no simple question, no simple answers Susan Moller Okin; 4. Can intra-group equality co-exist with cultural diversity?: re-examining multicultural frameworks of accommodation Gurpreet Mahajan; 5. Gender versus culture: not always a deep disagreement Anne Phillips; 6. The rights of internal linguistic minorities Alan Patten; Part III. Individual Autonomy: 7. Autonomy, association and pluralism Jeff Spinner-Halev; 8. Sexual orientation, exit and refuge Jacob T. Levy; 9. On exit Oonagh Reitman; 10. Exit 'exit rights': reframing the debate Daniel M. Weinstock; Part IV. Self-Determination: 12. Identity and liberal politics: the problem of minorities within minorities Avigail Eisenberg; 13. Internal minorities and indigenous self-determination Margaret Moore; 14. Self-determination as a basic human right: the draft UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples Cindy Holder; Part V. Democracy: 15. Associative democracy and minorities within minorities Veit Bader; 16. A deliberative approach to conflicts of culture Monique Deveaux.