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  1. Headscarves: A Comparison of Public Thought and Public Policy in Germany and the Netherlands.Sawitri Saharso - 2007 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10 (4):513-530.
    This article focuses on public debates and public policy on the Islamic headscarf in the Netherlands and Germany. In the Netherlands the Islamic headscarf meets with an accommodating policy reaction, while in Germany some eight federal states have introduced legislation to ban the headscarf. This difference is explained, so I argue, by national differences in citizenship traditions. While the Netherlands represents a multicultural model, Germany used to be the paradigmatic example of an ethno‐cultural model of citizenship. Yet, the reaction of (...)
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  • Pluralism and the Interpretation of Women's Human Rights.Silvina Alvarez - 2009 - European Journal of Women's Studies 16 (2):125-141.
    Since conflicts of human rights can be translated into conflicts of values, this article looks into the sources and extension of value pluralism for a better understanding of the sort of conflicts of human rights that women face in multicultural contexts. Furthermore, a proper understanding of personal autonomy as a founding value underlying individual rights can contribute to an interpretation of women's human rights that takes account of both their untouchable core as well as their contextual meaning. As conflicts of (...)
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  • Cooking Nation: Gender Equality and Multiculturalism as Nation-Building Discourses.Salla Tuori - 2007 - European Journal of Women's Studies 14 (1):21-35.
    This article explores the discourses of multiculturalism and gender equality in relation to nation-building in Finland. The two discourses relate differently to the nation so that gender equality is seen as inherent to the nation while multiculturalism is seen as a challenge posed from outside. Nevertheless, the two discourses are dependent upon each other and cite each other. The material for the analysis is a document produced by an NGO-based multicultural women’s project in Finland. The article can also be read (...)
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