Undoing the "Package Picture" of Cultures

TL;DR: Eisenberg and Spinner-Halev as mentioned in this paper argued that intra-group equality co-exist with cultural diversity: re-examining multicultural frameworks of accommodation Gurpreet Mahajan 5.

TL;DR: This paper argued that women wearing the scarf, the mohajabehs, are making a political choice to publicly declare themselves as Muslims at a time when such a label carries the potential fear of making them vulnerable to open hostility.

TL;DR: The treatment of these issues has often been problematic, with discourses over culture tending to misrepresent minority cultural groups as monolithic entities, and initiatives to protect women becoming entangled with anti-immigration agendas.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the gender equality policies of Sweden, Denmark and Norway in the last decade and found that the Danish case gives the clearest example of what is believed to be conflict between minority cultural traditions and "Danish" equality norms.

TL;DR: The authors argue that cultural essentialism is detrimental to feminist agendas and suggest strategies for its avoidance, contending that some forms of cultural relativism buy into essentialist notions of culture, arguing that postcolonial feminists need to be cautious about essentialist contrasts between “Western” and “Third World” cultures.

TL;DR: What do you do to start reading circumcision for women?