Multiculture, Multiculturalism, Feminism

“Food’s great, but ...”Evolving attitudes to multiculturalAustralia, 1985 – 1995

Mackay Research, prominent in qualitative Australian social research since the early 1980's, has produced two reports on Australian attitudes towards multiculturalism in Australia, the first in 1985, entitled The Multiculture and the second, Multiculturalism, in September this year. This paper compares findings from these two reports, indicates some directions of attitudinal change in the prece...

Has Feminism Changed Physics?

Common Principles and Multiculturalism

Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical d...

Multiculturalism without Culture

This book’s oxymoronic title already encapsulates the core idea forwarded by the author, a leading figure in feminist political theory, although it would have been easier to capture had culture been placed between quotation marks. For it is a multiculturalism shaped by certain notions of culture that Phillips declines: she endorses neither essentialist views of monolithic cultures nor the oppos...

Looking for Feminism

In a recent talk given at a North American University, a prominent feminist scholar from the United States observed that the contributions of Black women in mass political movements have been given short shrift in both conventional male-centred narratives of revolutionary movements (such as the Black Power movement in the USA), and mainstream feminist accounts of women’s activism, because inter...