Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism

Towards a New Synthesis

Edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin and Will Kymlicka

Contains an extended introduction that situates the volume within the context of larger academic and political debates
Features contributions from leading scholars in their fields
Multidisciplinary approach

Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism

Towards a New Synthesis

Edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin and Will Kymlicka

Description

Around the world, we see a 'participatory turn' in the pursuit of gender equality, exemplified by the adoption of gender quotas in national legislatures to promote women's role as decision-makers. We also see a 'pluralism turn', with increasing legal recognition given to the customary law or religious law of minority groups and indigenous peoples. To date, the former trend has primarily benefitted majority women, and the latter has primarily benefitted minority men. Neither has effectively ensured the participation of minority women. In response, multicultural feminists have proposed institutional innovations to strengthen the voice of minority women, both at the state level and in decisions about the interpretation and evolution of cultural and religious practices.

This volume explores the connection between gender parity and multicultural feminism, both at the level of theory and in practice. The authors explore a range of cases from Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, in relation to state law, customary law, religious law, and indigenous law. While many obstacles remain, and many women continue to suffer from the paradox of multicultural vulnerability, these innovations in theory and practice offer new prospects for reconciling gender equality and pluralism.

Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism

Towards a New Synthesis

Edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin and Will Kymlicka

1. The Participatory Turn in Gender Equality and its Relevance for Multicultural Feminism, Will Kymlicka and Ruth Rubio-Marin
2. Democratizing Against the Grain, Anne Phillips
3. Women's Participation in the Public Domain Under Human Rights Law: Towards a Participatory Equality Paradigm Shift?, Ruth Rubio-Marin
4. The Combination of Gender and Ethnic Quotas in Electoral Politics, Melanie Hughes
5. Gender Parity in the Religious and Political Sphere of Israel, Meital Pinto
6. Legal Pluralism, Gender Equality, and Parity of Participation: Constitutional Issues Concerning Customary Law in Liberia, Susan H. Williams
7. The Challenges of Parity: Increasing Women's Participation in Informal Justice Systems within Sub-Saharan Africa, Johanna Bond
8. Parity Democracy, Legal Pluralism and Human Rights of Indigenous Women: An Outlook from Mexico, Dorothy Estrada-Tanck
9. Challenging Male Dominance in Norm-Making in Contexts of Legal Pluralism: Insights from the Andes, Rachel Sieder and Anna Barrera Vivero

Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism

Towards a New Synthesis

Edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin and Will Kymlicka

Author Information

Ruth Rubio-Marin is Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sevilla as well as member of the Faculty of The Hauser Global Law School Program, New York University. Her publiscations include Human Rights and Immigration (editor, OUP, 2014), The Gender of Reparations: Subverting Sexual Hierarchies while Redressing Human Rights Violations (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Immigration as a Democratic Challenge, (CUP, 2000), The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence (co-editor, CUP, 2004), and Transforming Gender Citizenship (forthcoming, CUP, 2018).

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University, and a visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program, Central European University, Budapest. His publications include Zoopolis: A Political theory of Animal Rights (OUP, 2011), The Strains of Commitment: The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies (co-editor, OUP, 2017), Multiculturalism and Minority Rights in the Arab World (co-editor, OUP, 2014), and Multicultural Odysseys (OUP, 2007). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Contributors:

Anna Barrera Vivero, EXPLORE Programme, EU-LAC Foundation, Hamburg.
Johanna Bond, Washington and Lee University.
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, European University Institute.
Melanie M. Hughes, University of Pittsburgh.
Will Kymlicka, Queen's University.
Anne Phillips, London School of Economics Gender Institute.
Meital Pinto, Carmel Academic Center, Haifa, Israel.
Ruth Rubio-Marin, University of Seville.
Rachel Sieder, Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City.
Susan Williams, Indiana University.