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Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence. These practices and conditions are standard in some parts of the world. Do demands for multiculturalism--and certain minority group rights in particular--make them more likely to continue and to spread to liberal democracies? Are there fundamental conflicts between our commitment to gender equity and our increasing desire to respect the customs of minority cultures or religions? In this book, the eminent feminist Susan Moller Okin and fifteen of the world's leading thinkers about feminism and multiculturalism explore these unsettling questions in a provocative, passionate, and illuminating debate. Okin opens by arguing that some group rights can, in fact, endanger women. She points, for example, to the French government's giving thousands of male immigrants special permission to bring multiple wives into the country, despite French laws against polygamy and the wives' own bitter opposition to the practice.Okin argues that if we agree that women should not be disadvantaged because of their sex, we should not accept group rights that permit oppressive practices on the grounds that they are fundamental to minority cultures whose existence may otherwise be threatened. In reply, some respondents reject Okin's position outright, contending that her views are rooted in a moral universalism that is blind to cultural difference. Others quarrel with Okin's focus on gender, or argue that we should be careful about which group rights we permit, but not reject the category of group rights altogether. Okin concludes with a rebuttal, clarifying, adjusting, and extending her original position. These incisive and accessible essays--expanded from their original publication in Boston Review and including four new contributions--are indispensable reading for anyone interested in one of the most contentious social and political issues today.The diverse contributors, in addition to Okin, are Azizah al-Hibri, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Homi Bhabha, Sander Gilman, Janet Halley, Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka, Martha Nussbaum, Bhikhu Parekh, Katha Pollitt, Robert Post, Joseph Raz, Saskia Sassen, Cass Sunstein, and Yael Tamir.
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In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues, largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the sexes. Women cannot be included as equals within political theory unless its deep-rooted assumptions about the traditional family, its sex roles, and its relation to the wider world of political society are challenged. So long as this attitude pervades our institutions and behavior, the formal equality women have won has no chance of becoming substantive.
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I denna debattbok reser den amerikanska statsvetaren och filosofen Susan Moller Okin en synnerligen aktuell fråga: hur bör demokratiska stater hantera konflikten mellan å ena sidan deras bekännelse till jämlikhet mellan könen och å andra sidan kraven på respekt och särskilda rättigheter från minoritetskulturer som inte internt erkänner denna jämlikhetsidé? Moller Okin kritiserar skarpt mångkulturalismens företrädare för att bortse från könsdiskriminerande seder och skillnader i makt mellan könen i de minoritetskulturer som de kräver ska respekteras i sina särdrag. Hon ger principen om mäns och kvinnors lika värde och lika möjligheter att leva autonoma liv en obetingad förrang framför kulturella grupprättigheter. Bland de femton svaren ryms många olika röster, allt-ifrån de som kritiserar Okin för att företräda en universalism blind för kulturella skillnader, till dem som delar hennes liberalfeministiska position men kritiserar henne för att inta ett sekulariserat perspektiv, blint för religionens betydelse i människors liv. Kritikerna får i sin tur ett svar från Okin. Debatten klargör olika dimensioner av spänningsförhållandet mellan feminism och mångkulturalism och ger en god förståelse för argumenten på båda sidor. Susan Moller Okin är professor i etik och statsvetenskap vid Stanford.