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This article offers a critical assessment of some recent liberal perfectionist arguments for the value of cultural identity & cultural membership, in particular the arguments of Joseph Roz & Will Kymlicka. Because these writers ask how cultural membership & identity may contribute to good lives -- & think this a proper question for political philosophy to address -- it seems possible that they may more readily contribute to strategies for securing respect & recognition for cultural minorities than other liberals. But although their acknowledgment of the value of cultural identity & membership represents an advance over neutral or political liberal approaches, liberal perfectionists are mistaken in viewing these features as important primarily insofar as they furnish agents with the capacities & contexts necessary for personal autonomy. While this argument may supply reasons for protecting vulnerable cultures that are liberal in character, it precludes the prospect of accommodating nonliberal cultural groups whose practices & beliefs conflict with liberal ideals & sensibilities. Adapted from the source document.

This article explores the tensions within multiculturalist theory between the aspiration to promote cultural recognition & the need to promote & protect women's concern with issues of sex & gender inequality. The article assesses the three main approaches to the reconciliation of sexual equality & group rights: according priority to the traditional values & practices of cultural groups; accepting collective & cultural rights but within a framework of international human rights; & the acceptance of group rights subject to respect for individual rights & freedoms. By focusing on the experience of aboriginal women activists in Canadian politics & their struggle to preserve constitutional sex equality, this article argues that only the third approach provides adequate safeguards for women in their public & private roles. 26 Appendixes. Adapted from the source document.

The following is an introduction to a roundtable panel of the American Political Science Association meeting (Normative Political Theory Division) held September 2, 1994, in New York City. I set out some main themes in the "care/justice debate," and suggest that the impasse between care proponents and liberal, neo-Kantian thinkers is perpetuated by caricatured construals of these theories; salient differences come into relief by addressing the ethical and political applications of these moral perspectives.

Onora O'Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely.Reading Onora O'Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissioned chapters by leading international philosophers in ethics, Kantian philoso

Explores the relationship between cultural justice and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light, challenging the framing of 'feminism and multiculturalism' as one of inevitable conflict, as well as the portrayal of liberal sexual equality

The main goal of this study is to determine whether women are underrepresented in prestigious ethics journals relative to their representation in the field of ethics. Our study proceeds in three steps. Step one: we estimate the percentage of women who specialize in ethics. Step two: we estimate the percentage of articles in prestigious ethics journals that are authored by women. Step three: we examine whether there is any difference between the percentage of women who specialize in ethics and the percentage of articles in prestigious ethics journals that are authored by women. We conclude that women are underrepresented in prestigious ethics journals relative to their representation in the field of ethics.