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Wollstonecraft, Mill, and women's human rights /

This book argues that Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill are the two primary architects of the modern theory of women rights as human rights. It only through addressing women rights, Botting argues, that the idea of human rights was given universal scope and application. Botting describes the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hunt, Eileen M., 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: women's human rights as integral to universal human rights
  • A philosophical genealogy of women's human rights
  • Foundations of universal human rights: Wollstonecraft's rational theology and Mill's liberal utilitarianism
  • Theories of human development: Wollstonecraft and Mill on sex, gender and education
  • The problem of cultural bias: Wollstonecraft, Mill and western narratives of women's progress
  • Human stories: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and the literature of human rights.