WOMEN’S RIGHTS AS MULTICULTURAL CLAIMS : RECONFIGURING GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY BY MONICA MOOKERJEE [HARDCOVER]

Monica Mookerjee reconfigures feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity, by drawing on Iris Young’s idea of ‘gender as seriality’. she argues that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women’s interests and multicultural justice.

Works through a set of dilemmas in modern liberal democracies:

• The resurgence of the feminist controversy over the Hindu practice of widow-immolation (sati)
• Gender-discriminatory Muslim divorce laws in the famous Shah Bano controversy in India
• Forced marriage in South Asian communities in the UK
• The rights of evangelical Christian parents to exempt their children from secular education
• The recent controversy about the rights of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in state schools in France