Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

CONTENTS

Introduction: Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Human Equality

Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha C. Nussbaum

PART 1: IS MULTICULTURALISM BAD FOR WOMEN?

Susan Moller Okin

PART 2: REPONSES

Whose Culture?

Katha Pollitt

Liberal Complacencies

Will Kymlicka

“My Culture Made Me Do It”

Bonnie Honig

Is Western Patriarchal Feminism Good for Third World / Minority Women?

Azizah Y. al-Hibri

Siding with the Underdogs

Yael Tamir

“Barbaric” Rituals?

Sander L. Gilman

Promises We Should All Keep in Common Cause

Abdullahi An-Na‘im

Between Norms and Choices

Robert Post

A Varied Moral World

Bhikhu Parekh

Culture beyond Gender

Saskia Sassen

Liberalism’s Sacred Cow

Homi K. Bhabha

Should Sex Equality Law Apply to Religious Institutions?

Cass R. Sunstein

How Perfect Should One Be? And Whose Culture Is?

Joseph Raz

Culture Constrains

Janet E. Halley

A Plea for Difficulty

Martha C. Nussbaum

Susan Moller Okin