Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Contemporary Political Theory)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 17
Accommodating differences and respecting rights: an unattainable marriage?......Page 20
An exploration of the institutional issues surrounding multicultural accommodation......Page 24
Outline of the book......Page 26
The road ahead......Page 31
2 The perils of multicultural accommodation......Page 33
Standard citizenship models......Page 36
Citizenship: the bond between the individual and the state......Page 37
Why we need a multicultural conception of citizenship......Page 38
Potential conflicts: group, state, individual......Page 41
Strong and weak versions of multiculturalism......Page 44
Full assimilation......Page 49
Limited particularism......Page 50
Reactive culturalism......Page 51
Against “non-intervention”......Page 53
The “domestic impunity” fallacy......Page 56
Summary......Page 58
3 Family law and the construction of collective identity......Page 61
Incidental vs. systemic in-group violation......Page 63
The anatomy of family law......Page 65
Family law’s demarcating function......Page 67
Family law’s distributive function......Page 70
Women’s heightened responsibility and heightened vulnerability......Page 71
The agunah test case......Page 73
Reactive culturalism and multicultural accommodation......Page 76
Summary......Page 77
4 State vs. nomos: lessons from contemporary law and normative theory......Page 79
Two theoretical responses to the paradox of multicultural vulnerability......Page 80
The re-universalized citizenship option......Page 81
The unavoidable costs approach......Page 84
Transcending the either/or framework......Page 86
A critique of current legal approaches......Page 87
The secular absolutist model......Page 88
The religious particularist model......Page 94
The insufficiency of current theoretical and applied legal models......Page 101
The joint governance approach......Page 104
Mutually re-enforcing rights and nomos......Page 105
The plurality of joint governance......Page 106
Jurisdictional solutions......Page 107
Federal-style accommodation......Page 108
Temporal accommodation......Page 112
Consensual accommodation......Page 119
Contingent accommodation......Page 125
Summary......Page 129
6 Transformative accommodation: utilizing external protections to reduce internal restrictions......Page 133
Principles of transformative accommodation......Page 134
Allocating jurisdiction along “sub-matter” lines......Page 135
The “no monopoly” rule......Page 136
The establishment of clearly delineated choice options......Page 138
Transformative accommodation vs. other variants of joint governance......Page 142
Decision-making across jurisdictional boundaries: tensions and possibilities......Page 144
Family law revisited: fostering change “from within”......Page 147
Dividing demarcation from distribution......Page 148
Breaking the property–status extortion cycle......Page 151
Empowering the once vulnerable......Page 154
Harnessing group survival instincts......Page 156
Summary......Page 159
7 Conclusion......Page 162
IMMIGRATION LAW......Page 167
EDUCATION......Page 170
CRIMINAL JUSTICE......Page 176
BOOKS AND JOURNALS......Page 182
CANADA......Page 200
ISRAEL......Page 201
UNITED NATIONS (HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE)......Page 202
Index......Page 203