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Gender, Culture and Human Rights - Reclaiming Universalism (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,215
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Gender, Culture and Human Rights - Reclaiming Universalism (Hardcover, New): Siobhan Mullally

Gender, Culture and Human Rights - Reclaiming Universalism (Hardcover, New)

Siobhan Mullally

Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective

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In recent years, feminist theory has increasingly defined itself in opposition to universalism and to discourses of human rights. Rejecting the troubled legacies of Enlightenment thinking, feminists have questioned the very premises upon which the international human rights movement is based. Rather than abandoning human rights discourse, however, this book argues that feminism should reclaim the universal and reconstruct the theory and practice of human rights. Discourse ethics and its post-metaphysical defence of universalism is offered as a key to this process of reconstruction. The implications of discourse ethics and the possibility of reclaiming universalism are explored in the context of the reservations debate in international human rights law and further examined in debates on women's human rights arising in Ireland, India and Pakistan. Each of these states shares a common constitutional heritage and, in each, religious-cultural claims, intertwined with processes of nation-building, have constrained the pursuit of gender equality. Ultimately, this book argues in favour of a dual-track approach to cultural conflicts, combining legal regulation with an ongoing moral-political dialogue on the scope and content of human rights.

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Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective
Release date: May 2006
First published: 2006
Authors: Siobhan Mullally
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 287
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-84113-513-7
Categories: Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International human rights law
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
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LSN: 1-84113-513-5
Barcode: 9781841135137

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