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Negotiating culture and human rights

Author: Lynda Schaefer Bell; Andrew J Nathan; Ilan Peleg
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001.
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"Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Cross-cultural studies
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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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  Read more...

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