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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823903603321

Autore

Ackerly Brooke A

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-107-18490-8

1-281-71719-3

9786611717193

0-511-40948-6

0-511-41002-6

0-511-40813-7

0-511-40738-6

0-511-75601-1

0-511-40894-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Human rights

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-359) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Universal human rights in a world of difference: challenging our thinking -- Universal human rights? -- Universalism and differences -- Immanent and universal human rights: more legitimate than reasonable -- Feminist curb cutting: a methodology for exposing silences and revealing differences for the immanent study of universal human rights -- Listening to the silent voices, hearing dissonance: a methodology for interpretation and analysis -- An immanent and universal theory of human rights -- Terrain(s) of difficulty: obligation, problem-solving, and trust -- Feminist strategies -- "If I can make a circle".

Sommario/riassunto

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.