Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference

Ackerly, Brooke A.

ISBN 10: 0521707552 / ISBN 13: 9780521707558

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521707552
• ISBN 13: 9780521707558
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).