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The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades. In this bold and innovative book, Jean Cohen presents a new approach to regulating intimacy that promises to defuse the tensions that have long sparked conflict among legislators, jurists, activists, and scholars. Disputes have typically arisen over questions that apparently set the demands of personal autonomy, justice, and responsibility against each other. Can law stay out of the bedroom without shielding oppression and abuse? Can we protect the pursuit of personal happiness

The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades. In this bold and innovative book, Jean Cohen presents a new approach to regulating intimacy that promises to defuse the tensions that have long sparked conflict among legislators, jurists, activists, and scholars. Disputes have typically arisen over questions that apparently set the demands of personal autonomy, justice, and responsibility against each other. Can law stay out of the bedroom without shielding oppression and abuse? Can we protect the pursuit of personal happiness wh.

Este trabajo sostiene una actitud crítica respecto al llamado "nuevo pluralismo jurídico".Comienza situando este concepto en una perspectiva histórica, para luego analizar losargumentos feministas a favor de la "acomodación transformativa" de la diversidad religiosaen un pluralismo jurídico basado en el estatus religioso. La aportación de la autora no se ciñea identificar los fallos del pluralismo jurídico, sino que ofrece además un modelo diferente deacomodación transformativa, que descansa en una mezcla de enfoques jurídicos respecto alos problemas que afrontan las mujeres religiosas en una democracia constitucional.Palabras claveIgualdad de género, minorías religiosas, multiculturalismo, pluralismo jurídico,constitucionalismo, derecho personal y de familia.Palabras clave: Igualdad de género, minorías religiosas, multiculturalismo, pluralismo jurídico,constitucionalismo, derecho personal y de familia.Abstract: This paper defends a critical view about the so called "new legal pluralism". It begins byplacing this concept in an historical perspective, and then analyzing feminist arguments forthe "transformative accommodation" of religious diversity in the form of status based legalpluralism. The author's contribution is not only the assessing of the flaws in the legal pluralistsolution, but also the offering of a different model of transformative accommodation that restson a mix of legal approaches to the problems faced by religious women in a constitutional democracy.Keywords: Gender equality, religious minorities, multiculturalism, legal pluralism, constitutionalism, personal and family law