Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2010, 11 (1): 3-16

'Saving Amina': Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue

Alison M. Jaggar

Western moral and political theorists have recently devoted considerable attention to the perceived victimisation of women by non-western cultures. In this paper, the author argues that conceiving injustice to poor women in poor countries primarily as a matter of their oppression by illiberal cultures presents an understanding of their situation that is crucially incomplete. This incomplete understanding distorts Western theorists' comprehension of our moral relationship to women elsewhere in the world and so of our theoretical task. It also impoverishes our assumptions about the intercultural dialogue necessary to promote global justice for women.

Keywords: gender, non-western cultures, global justice

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