Women's Rights as Multicultural Claims: Reconfiguring Gender and Diversity in Political Philosophy

Reconciles women's rights with multiculturalism--a central problem in contemporary political theory. Monica Mookerjee reconfigures feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity, by drawing on Iris Young's idea of 'gender as seriality'. she argues that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women's interests and multicultural justice.