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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459694403321

Autore

Sarat Austin

Titolo

Identities, Politics, and Rights [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-60468-6

9786612604683

0-472-02377-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Collana

Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought

Altri autori (Persone)

KearnsThomas R

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Civil rights

Electronic books. -- local

Human rights

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Editorial Introduction / Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns; Part 1: Rights and the Constitution of the Self; Bodily Integrity and the Right to Abortion / Drucilla Cornell; Rights and Identity in Late Modernity: Revisiting the ""Jewish Question"" / Wendy Brown; Reincarnation as the Ring on Liz Taylor's Finger: Andy Warhol and the Right of Publicity / Jane Gaines; Taking Liberties in Foucault's Triangle: Sovereignty, Discipline, Governmentality, and the Subject of Rights / Kirstie M. McClure

The Discourse of Rights in Colonial South Africa: Subjectivity, Sovereignty, Modernity / John ComaroffPart 2: Rights in Political Struggles; Nothing Left but Rights: Law in the Struggle against Apartheid / Richard L. Abel; Wife Battering and the Ambiguities of Rights / Sally Engle Merry; The First Amendment and the Meaning of America / Steven Shiffrin; Rights and Cultural Difference / Martha Minow; Is Nationalism Compatible with Human Rights? Reflections on East-Central Europe / Elizabeth Kiss; The Next American Revolution / Bruce Ackerman; Contributors; Index