Multiculturalism without Culture

Author: Anne Phillips
ISBN: 9780691129440

Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead placing individuals themselves at its core. Multiculturalism has been blamed for encouraging the oppression of women--forced marriages, female genital cutting, school girls wearing the hijab. Many critics opportunistically deploy gender equality to justify the retreat from multiculturalism, hijacking the equality agenda to perpetuate cultural stereotypes. Phillips informs her argument with the feminist insistence on recognizing women as agents, and defends her position using an unusually broad range of literature, including political theory, philosophy, feminist theory, law, and anthropology. She argues that

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publish Date: 2009-02-17

Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Social Science / Women's Studies, Political Science / History & Theory, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Minority Studies

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