Suchergebnisse

Introduction / Katherine K. Young -- Open space and double locks : the Hindutva appropriation of female gender / Eva Hellman -- Women as fundamental and fundamentalists women : the case of Buddhist Sri Lanka / Tessa Bartholomeusz -- Fundamentalism and the position of women in Confucianism / Vivian-Lee Nyitray -- Reading from right to left : fundamentalism, feminism, and women's changing role in Jewish societies / Sylvia Barack Fishman -- Chastening tale : figuring woman across the Christian fundamentalist/feminist divide / Heidi Epstein -- Miniskirts and fundamentalist fashions : clothing the Muslim Canadian woman / Reem A. Meshal -- Postscript: Reading from both right and left to center / Katherine K. Young

This book examines the principles underlining the policies of reservation and affirmative action adopted by two non-homogeneous and multi-ethnic societies-India and the USA. Despite the fact that the governments of both countries have, for over fifty years now, applied these measures to overcome discrimination based on caste and race respectively, the author maintains that there is no comprehensive account of the grounds on which either reservations or affirmative action can be intellectually justified. Addressing the key question-What is being affirmed through affirmative action?-the author s