Should Church and State Be Joined at the Altar? Women's Rights and the Multicultural Dilemma

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20041590
AutoresAyelet Shachar (autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Páginas199-223
Data de publicação2000-03-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoCitizenship in diverse societies (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/019829770x.003.0008
OpenAlexW2500645790
ISBN9780198297703
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12

The first section of this chapter (Women and family law) demonstrates why women living in minority groups are more vulnerable than men to maltreatment in the family‐law context. In the second section, two extant approaches to family‐law accommodation (the ‘secular absolutist’ model, and the ‘religious particularist’ model) are discussed that exemplify the family‐law arrangements adopted in numerous legal democracies. In the last section, a new alternative multicultural approach is developed to family‐law accommodation. This is called the ‘joint‐governance’ model, and while it respects the crucial identity‐preserving function of family law, it also seeks to provide women living in close‐knit religious or cultural groups with the legal protection guaranteed to them as state citizenship

Aesthetics · Altar · Art · Citizenship · Dilemma · Epistemology · Family law · Multiculturalism · Political science · Sociology · State law · Theology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment