Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference (Hardcover)

Brooke A. Ackerly

ISBN 10: 0521881269 / ISBN 13: 9780521881265

Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008

Hardcover. 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. Brooke Ackerly offers a feminist argument for a universal theory of human rights, found within the diverse work of activists themselves, which recognizes a wide list of human rights and our universal obligation to respect them through our actions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780521881265

Riassunto:

A feminist argument in favour of human rights as wide-ranging and universal.

Informazioni sull'autore: Brooke A. Ackerly is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (Cambridge, 2000) and co-editor of Feminist Methodologies for International Relations (Cambridge, 2006).

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Titolo: Universal Human Rights in a World of ...
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: new
Edizione: prima edizione