Abstract
To elaborate these points I examine the cultural dimensions of two different feminist struggles: debate over the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States between 1970 and 1982 and current efforts to end practice of in Africa and elsewhere. (As I explain later I use the term female circumcision in quotation marks and with some trepidation.) In using these cases I am extending the idiom of the politics of recognition beyond the terrain to which it has generally been directed by theorists in North America and in Europe--to the struggles of minority or marginalized cultures in Western nation-states. I contend that a feminist critical theory of recognition is relevant to virtually every contemporary society. Feminists must negotiate tensions between the pursuit of sex equality and respect for cultural differences not only with regard to women in other cultures; this task is central to all feminist struggles to give new meanings to prevailing gendered norms and practices. Moreover a basic corollary to my call for a hermeneutical feminist critical theory of recognition is that such a theory must be elaborated contextually. (excerpt)
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