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16 Can. J. Women & L. 14 (2004)
Is Culture Taboo - Feminism, Intersectionality, and Culture Talk in Law

handle is hein.journals/cajwol16 and id is 38 raw text is: Is Culture Taboo? Feminism, Intersectionality, and Culture Talk in Law Maneesha Deckha Le prbsent article tudie l'introduction de revendications culturelles en droit et demande s'il s'agit l6 d'une innovation int~ressante-et dans quelle mesure- pour les fiministes qui adoptent une th~orie de 1'(fintersectionnalit6)). L 'auteure identife plusieurs approches dans les recherches fiministes en droit vis-d-vis du discours culturel en droit et elle examine 6 fond leurs forces et leurs faiblesses respectives du point de vue de laintersectionnalitio. Elle analyse comment le concept de la culture pr~sente un aspect paradoxal des rapports sociaux de sexe, particulirement interpellant pour ces fiministes. D'une part, la culture sert de fondement aux revendications normatives au sujet des r6les sexuds que les fiministes tentent de d~manteler au nom des droits des femmes. D'autre part, la culture sert de rampart, utilis6 par lesfemmes issues des minorit s d l'encontre de la culture majoritaire et des lois adopt~es pour reflter les valeurs dominantes. En d'autres termes, l oii se rejoignent l'oppression culturelle et l'oppression sexuelle, respecter la culture pr~sente d la fois des aspects positifs et nigatifs pour les femmes. L'auteure soutient qu'une v&itable adhesion d I'analyse de l 'intersectionnalit6) exige que les fiministes soient r~ceptives 6 des revendications i caractire culturel lorsque ces revendications ne peuvent subordonner les int&rts des membres les plus vuln~rables de ces minorit~s culturelles en aggravant leur situation, ni dans la situation actuelle, ni dans un avenir prvisible. Elle conclut que le droit doit permettre aux groupes marginalis~s de riclamer la protection de leur culture ou inversement, de r~sister d des incursions culturelles et que ces revendications juridiques n 'touffent pas n&essairement la dissidence au sein des cultures minoritaires. This article considers whether, and to what extent, feminists committed to a theory of intersectionality should welcome the introduction of cultural claims into law. The author identifies several approaches in feminist legal literature towards culture discourse in law and canvasses their strengths and weaknesses from an intersectional perspective. She discusses how the concept of culture presents a gendered paradox of particular concern for feminists committed to intersectionality. On the one hand, culture props up normative claims about gender roles that feminists seek to resist under a theory of women 's rights. On the other hand, culture serves as a defence that women from minority cultures use against majoritarian cultures and the laws generated by the values within those cultures. In other words, when one adverts to the intersection of gender and

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