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Universal human rights in a world of difference /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Universal human rights in a world of difference // Brooke A. Ackerly.
Author:	Ackerly, Brooke A.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Human rights. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511756016
ISBN:	9780511756016 (ebook)

Universal human rights in a world of difference /
Ackerly, Brooke A.,

Universal human rights in a world of difference /Brooke A. Ackerly. - 1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. Universal human rights in a world of difference: challenging our thinking ---- Part I. Epistemology, Diversity, and Disagreement in Theory and Practice. 2. Universal human rights? --- 3. Universalisms and differences --- 4. Immanent and universal human rights: more legitimate than reasonable ---- Part II. A Methodology for Immanent Theory. 5. Feminist curb cutting: a methodology for exposing silences and revealing differences: immanent study of universal human rights --- 6. Listening to the silent voices, hearing dissonance: a methodology for interpretation and analysis ---- Part III. Immanent Universal Human Rights: Theory and Practice. 7. An immanent and universal theory of human rights: curb cutting in theory --- 8. Terrain(s) of difficulty: obligation, curb cutting, and problem-solving --- 9. Feminist strategies: curb cutting in activism --- 10. 'If I can make a circle'.

From the diverse work and often competing insights of women's human rights activists, Brooke Ackerly has written a feminist and a universal theory of human rights that bridges the relativists' concerns about universalizing from particulars and the activists' commitment to justice. Unlike universal theories that rely on shared commitments to divine authority or to an 'enlightened' way of reasoning, Ackerly's theory relies on rigorous methodological attention to difference and disagreement. She sets out human rights as at once a research ethic, a tool for criticism of injustice and a call to recognize our obligations to promote justice through our actions. This book will be of great interest to political theorists, feminist and gender studies scholars and researchers of social movements.

ISBN: 9780511756016 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Human rights.

LC Class. No.: JC571 / .A134 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 323

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