The Journal, “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friends or Foes?, by Oonagh Reitman seeks to address about the similarities between two critiques of international human rights that come from both cultural relativist and feminist. The critique comes from the claim that human rights are universal and both cultural relativist and feminist disagree about the universalism in human rights. The author argue that whether feminist and cultural relativist is friends or
Abstract The article of “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friend or Foes?” the article seeks to understand the similarities two critiques of international human rights made by cultural relativism and feminist and the second is how these two critiques have come to oppose each other in the realm of women’s international human rights. The paper begins by defining kinds of human rights, feminism, and universalism from cultural point of view in relation to international
not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures” (University of Florida, n.d., para. 14). This oft-quoted aphorism is particularly relevant in Canada, a multicultural country where certain cultural practices — such as polygamy — are proscribed. In opposing polygamy, critics argue that the cultural practice is incongruent with Canadian values, perpetuates gender inequality, and is inherently harmful to women and children (Reference re: section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada, 2011). On the
inhabit. Any harmful cultural practice has social justice ramifications, but it is not enough for people to merely express their displeasure, rather, as Wangila (2007) asserts, “there are universal norms that can make intercultural communication possible” (p. 64). In other words, while there is a case to be made for the eradication of FGC, there are cultural justifications for its continuation from the perspectives of communities that engage in it. At the heart of the debate is the real issue, which
relativism might sound good at first there is a logical contradiction inherent in all of them because they all propose the “right” moral scheme—the one we all ought to go behind but this itself is autocracy and the second there is even so-called relativists reject
1- Discuss the pitfalls of the debate surrounding universalism and cultural relativism. Which seems to be stronger in Law and in Humanities and the Social Sciences. You can give some of your personal experiences if you wish. Answer: Cultural relativism is the perspective according to which every culture has its norms, standards, values, traditions, culture and custom. No culture is superior to any other culture. In this way, the entire moral codes of the world going to be grounded because everyone
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others Author(s): Lila Abu-Lughod Reviewed work(s): Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 783-790 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3567256 . Accessed: 18/01/2012 15:55 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at
mother, she asks, could not the "natural" sexual orientation of both men and women be toward women? Rich 's radical questioning has been a major intellectual force in the general feminist reorientation to sexual matters in recent years, and her conception of a "lesbian continuum" sparked especially intense debate. Does lesbianism incorporate all support systems and intense interactions among women, or is
Comparing the Epistemologies Governing the First and Second Order Cybernetic Approaches Critically compare the epistemologies governing the first-and second-order cybernetic approaches in terms of the following: 1. How is reality seen by each specific approach? 2. What does the diagnostic systems of each specific approach look like? 3. How does each specific approach deal with therapy? 4. What are the specific skills required by each approach?
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father King Hamlet, and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow, Hamlet's mother Gertrude. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most