Gender and CultureISBN: 978-0-7456-4799-9
Hardcover
192 pages
June 2010, Polity
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Acknowledgements vi
1 Introduction 1
2 Multiculturalism, universalism and the claims of democracy 16
3 Dilemmas of gender and culture: the judge, the democrat and the political activist 38
4 What is ‘culture’? 57
5 What’s wrong with essentialism? 69
6 When culture means gender: issues of cultural defence in the English courts 83
7 Free to decide for oneself 107
8 Consent, autonomy and coercion: forced marriage, public policy and the courts 124
Notes 142
Bibliography 157
Index 165