Womens Issues and Multiculturalism Essays -- Feminist Feminism Cultur

Womens Issues and MulticulturalismABSTRACT In part one of this paper, I offer a verbal description of the main versions of multiculturalism, with its liberal interpretation among them. In part two, I give an outline of the changes that apply taken place in womens social status in the course of history and of the various stages of their emancipation process. In the ternary part I examine the relationship between multiculturalism and womens issues in general. Finally, I explore the alike in Hungary, and attempt to draw some general consequences. Does a minority group (e.g., Gypsies in Hungary) in a multicultural society nurse the respectable to maintain their traditional patriarchal culture? I argue that the liberation of women is not a womens issue it is part of the persistent enforcement of human rights. My address is carve up into four parts. In the first part I offer a description of the main versions of multiculturalism, with its liberal interpretation among them. In the sec ond part I shall give an outline of the changes that have taken place in womens social status in the course of history and of the various stages of their emancipation process. In the third part I examine the relationship between multiculturalism and womens issues in general. Finally, in the fourth part I explore the same in Hungary, and attempt at drawing some general consequences.(I) It is appropriate to distinguish between two types of multicultural societies-the traditional and the modern. In traditional societies, several ethnic groups may have lived together, which, despite their differences, basically belonged to the same civilisation. In countries which belong in the European civilisation, for instance, English and Scots, French and Bretons have li... ...oup have the right in a multicultural society to maintain their traditional patriarchal culture? Members of a minority group are as good citizens as those in the majority. They therefore have the same rights. However, they a lso have the same duties. Maintaining traditions that violate civil liberties is not to be tolerated. Preserving the mother tongue or cultivating the arts is one thing, wearing chuddar or clitoral circumcision is an entirely different matter. If the female members of a minority group undertake to follow much(prenominal) traditions of their own will, they are similar to members of such sects as may go as far as committing collective suicide. In the majority of cases, however, coercion of some sort is present. The liberation of women, therefore, is in the personality of the modern world not a womens issue it is part of the persistent enforcement of human rights.