Gender, Culture and Human Rights: Reclaiming Universalism

by Siobhan Mullally

In recent years, feminist theory has increasingly defined itself in opposition to universalism and to discourses of human rights. Rejecting the troubled legacies of Enlightenment thinking, feminists have questioned the very premises upon which the international human rights movement is based. Rather than abandoning human rights discourse, however, this book argues that feminism should reclaim the universal and reconstruct the theory and practice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841135135
• ISBN13: 9781841135137
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"