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Gender, culture and human rights : reclaiming universalism /

Argues that feminism must return to the universal and reconstruct the theory and practice of human rights. This work offers discourse ethics and its post-metaphysical defence of universalism as a key to this process of reconstruction. The implications of discourse ethics and the possibility of recla...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mullally, Siobhán
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2006.
Colección:Human rights law in perspective ; v. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The discourse of human rights : 'an active enemy of women's progress'?
  • Alan Gewirth's community of rights : feminism, liberalism and the value of community
  • Political liberalism, feminism and the limits of an 'overlapping consensus'
  • Nussbaum and the human capabilities approach : reconciling feminism and universalism?
  • Discourse ethics, feminism and the return to the universal
  • Opting out of women's human rights : reservations to human rights treaties and the defence of culture
  • Debating gender in Ireland (1) : family values
  • Debating gender in Ireland (2) : reproductive rights
  • Women, human rights and cultural claims in Pakistan
  • Debating gender equality in India : feminism and multicultural dilemmas.