Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights by I. Shapiro, Russell Hardin, John Keane, Jeffrey Isaac, Ayelet Shachar, Phillip Pettit, Stephen T. Holmes, Elizabeth Kiss, Philippe van Parijs, Susan Okin

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Contemporary Political Theory

Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights

I. Shapiro, Russell Hardin, John Keane, Jeffrey Isaac, Ayelet Shachar, Phillip Pettit, Stephen T. Holmes, Elizabeth Kiss, Philippe van Parijs, Susan Okin

208 pages • first pub 1997 • 2 editions

feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Can the state respect cultural differences while protecting the rights of vulnerable group members, in particular women? Shachar argues that it is both theoretically needed and institutionally feasible. Rejecting prevalent solutions to this "parad...