Research Article

MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE

Volume: 1 Number: 2 December 1, 2017
  • Cihan Ardili
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MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate and re-read the multiculturalism from a gender perspective. This requires that the definitions and practices of multiculturalism are examined. In this context, the tension between multiculturalism and gender relations in particular will be revealed and approaches to avoid this tension will be addressed in a comparative way. This study will be focused on the concepts of liberal, communitarian and feminist multiculturalism in the relationship between multiculturalism and gender. Examples such as polygamy, headscarf, female circumcision are especially experienced by women. The main argument is whether these experiences are free elections or conservative imperatives that provide the continuation of culture and tradition. These experiences are assessed in the context of liberal multiculturalism in the context of ensuring integration with neutral or universal policies, while in communitarian multiculturalism they are evaluated as secondary to ensure the continuity of cultures and group interests. Feminist multiculturalism, on the other hand, demonstrates the tension between the “unliable subject" underlying liberal theory and the communitarians' "positioned subject" and what can be done to overcome this tension. The focus of this work is on Susan Moller Okin and critiques of his arguments. Feminist politics theorist Okin  emphasizes that the culture is not only valuable because it exists, but the value of a culture must be measured by how it values the individual autonomy. Okin asserts that women should not be disadvantaged by their gender, should have freely chosen lives. Liberal and communitarian approaches to the theory of multiculturalism in the gender context are unsatisfactory. Of course no valid proposal / model can be found. But there is absolutely a third way that enables us to become a party to human existence and that involves women. In this context, it is necessary to develop a transformative and re-regulatory.

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English

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Cihan Ardili This is me

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December 1, 2017

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Year 2017 Volume: 1 Number: 2

APA
Ardili, C. (2017). MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE. International Journal of Social And Humanities Sciences, 1(2), 54-67. https://izlik.org/JA37YW68TT
AMA
1.Ardili C. MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE. IJSHS. 2017;1(2):54-67. https://izlik.org/JA37YW68TT
Chicago
Ardili, Cihan. 2017. “MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE”. International Journal of Social And Humanities Sciences 1 (2): 54-67. https://izlik.org/JA37YW68TT.
EndNote
Ardili C (December 1, 2017) MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE. International Journal of Social And Humanities Sciences 1 2 54–67.
IEEE
[1]C. Ardili, “MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE”, IJSHS, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 54–67, Dec. 2017, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA37YW68TT
ISNAD
Ardili, Cihan. “MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE”. International Journal of Social And Humanities Sciences 1/2 (December 1, 2017): 54-67. https://izlik.org/JA37YW68TT.
JAMA
1.Ardili C. MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE. IJSHS. 2017;1:54–67.
MLA
Ardili, Cihan. “MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE”. International Journal of Social And Humanities Sciences, vol. 1, no. 2, Dec. 2017, pp. 54-67, https://izlik.org/JA37YW68TT.
Vancouver
1.Cihan Ardili. MULTICULTURALISM FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE. IJSHS [Internet]. 2017 Dec. 1;1(2):54-67. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA37YW68TT