TY - JOUR
T1 - From multiculturalism to technique
T2 - Feminism, culture, and the conflict of laws style
AU - Knop, Karen
AU - Michaels, Ralf
AU - Riles, Annelise
PY - 2012/3/1
Y1 - 2012/3/1
N2 - The German Chancellor, the French President, and the British Prime Minister have each grabbed world headlines with pronouncements that their states' policies of multiculturalism have failed. As so often, domestic debates about multiculturalism, as well as foreign policy debates about human rights in non-Western countries, revolve around the treatment of women. Yet feminists are no longer even certain how to frame, let alone resolve, the issues raised by veiling, polygamy, and other cultural practices oppressive to women by Western standards. Feminism has become perplexed by the very concept of "culture." This impasse is detrimental both to women's equality and to concerns for cultural autonomy.
AB - The German Chancellor, the French President, and the British Prime Minister have each grabbed world headlines with pronouncements that their states' policies of multiculturalism have failed. As so often, domestic debates about multiculturalism, as well as foreign policy debates about human rights in non-Western countries, revolve around the treatment of women. Yet feminists are no longer even certain how to frame, let alone resolve, the issues raised by veiling, polygamy, and other cultural practices oppressive to women by Western standards. Feminism has become perplexed by the very concept of "culture." This impasse is detrimental both to women's equality and to concerns for cultural autonomy.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84860166279
VL - 64
SP - 589
EP - 656
JO - Stanford Law Review
JF - Stanford Law Review
SN - 0038-9765
IS - 3
ER -