Feministička kritika multikulturalizma
Feminist Criticism of Multiculturalism

Summary/Abstract: A distinction among three types of feminist criticism of multiculturalism is proposed in the article. The first type warns that insistence on cultural diversity and its recognition as the most important issue of social justice obscures the more fundamental questions of material deprivation, exploitation and economic marginalisation. The second type is directed at 'identity policy', understood in the essentialist sense, according to which race, class, gender or culture ensures the basis of political interests and group unity. However, most of the discussion takes place regarding (Susan Moller Okin's) statement that multiculturalism in its support of group rights neglects the interests of women, moreover, that it undermines the achievements of women's emancipation in the West. Multiculturalists renounce all three accusations, although many generally agree that the liberal- -egalitarian approach towards multiculturalism has to carefully consider intergroup inequalities, especially those generic in character, while examining the legitimacy of minority group rights. The article determines that western women-theoreticians

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