Feminism versus Multiculturalism

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Berkeley LawBerkeley Law Scholarship RepositoryFaculty Scholarship1-1-2001Feminism versus MulticulturalismLeti VolppBerkeley LawFollow this and additional works at: of theWomen CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in FacultyScholarship by an authorized administrator of Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please CitationLeti Volpp, Feminism versus Multiculturalism , 101Colum. L. (2001),Available at: versus MULTICULTURALISMLeti Volpp*To posit ftminism and Multiculturalism as oppositional is to assumethat minority women are victims of their cultures.

a constructive dialogue beyond the discourse of feminism versus multiculturalism. ... linking or separating politics and culture. See Avery F. Gordon & Christopher Newfield, ... is much more interesting to explore is the question of why this binary discourse so frequently structures the parameters of the debate. My criti-

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