| Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference Contributor(s): Ackerly, Brooke (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521881269 ISBN-13: 9780521881265 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Human Rights - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 323 |
| LCCN: 2007051567 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.65 lbs) 388 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ackerly, Brooke A.: - 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). |
