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Subject(s)

• Feminist jurisprudence [Browse]
• Women's rights [Browse]
• Women—Legal status, laws, etc—Social aspects [Browse]

Series

• Human rights law in perspective ; [v. 8]. [More in this series]
• Human rights law in perspective ; [v. 8] [More in this series]

Summary note

Discusses issues of international human rights from a gender perspective, especially why feminist theory has been increasingly opposing universalism. Argues that implications of discourse ethics and post-metaphysical defence are the key to reconstruction. Refers to women's human rights cases in Ireland, India and Pakistan, with a view to their common constitutional heritage, differing religious-cultural claims and nation-building processes and the constraints to the pursuit of gender equality.

Notes

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--European University Institute, Florence.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-251) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 9781841135137 (hardback)
• 1841135135 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2006281917

OCLC

70842221

RCP

H - S

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