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| Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynda Schaefer Bell; Andrew J Nathan; Ilan Peleg |
| ISBN: | 023112080X 9780231120807 0231120818 9780231120814 |
| OCLC Number: | 44727695 |
| Description: | xiii, 428 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: culture and human rights / Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, Ilan Peleg -- Who produces Asian identity? : discourse, discrimination, and Chinese peasant women in the quest for human rights / Lynda S. Bell -- Getting beyond cross-talk: why persisting disagreements are philosophically nonfatal / Michael G. Barnhart -- Western defensiveness and the defense of rights: a communitarian alternative / Kenneth E. Morris -- Rights hunting in non-western traditions / Steven J. Hood -- How a liberal jurist defends the Bangkok Declaration / Michael W. Dowdle -- Are women human? The promise and perils of "women's rights as human rights" / Lucinda Joy Peach -- Re-positioning human rights discourse on "Asian" perspectives / Sharon K. Hom -- Human rights and the discourse on universality: a Chinese historical perspective / Xiaoqun Xu -- Jihad over human rights, human rights as jihad: clash of universals / Farhat Haq -- Universalization of the rejection of human rights: Russia's case / Dmitry Shlapentokh -- Ethnicity and human rights in contemporary democracies: Israel and other cases / Ilan Peleg -- Walking two roads: reading human rights in contemporary Chinese fiction / Tomas N. Santos -- Universalism: a particularistic account / Andrew J. Nathan -- Dedichotomizing discourse: three gorges, two cultures, one nature / Jennifer R. Goodman. |
| Responsibility: | Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, editors. |
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Abstract:
By tracing the relativist and universalist arguments of human rights through such issues as criminal justice, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at this dichotomy. This new view is articulated as a sort of "chastened universalism," not as concerned with searching for pre-existing common values among different cultures, but for ways to create them.
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