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ISBN 10: 0521881269 
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Author: Brooke A. Ackerly

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.

Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference 1st Table of contents:

1 Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference: Challenging Our Thinking

• Invisibility

• Universal justification

• Critical theory and methodology

• What you see is what you get

• Conclusion

PART I Epistemology, Diversity, and Disagreement in Theory and Practice

2 Universal Human Rights?

• Introduction

• Human rights as a non-ideal theory

• Rawlsian methodology and non-ideal theory

• Methodologies for non-ideal theoretical arguments

• The politics of knowledge

• The politics of diversity

• The politics of dissent

• Conclusion

3 Universalisms and Differences

• Introduction

• Transcendental universalisms

• Metaphysical transcendental universalism: faith and other metaphysics

• Secular transcendental universalisms: philosophical and legal arguments

• The universalism of anti-liberalism and relativism

• What can we do?

4 Immanent and Universal Human Rights: More Legitimate Than Reasonable

• Introduction

• An immanent moral universal and cross-cultural inquiry

• Methodological considerations

• Rights as immanent in history

• The nexus and the olive branch

• Taking ‘‘others’’ seriously

• A theoretical methodology

• Conclusion

PART II A Methodology for Immanent Theory

5 Feminist Curb Cutting: A Methodology for Exposing Silences and Revealing Differences

• Prologue

• Introduction

• Feminist curb cutting – the epistemology behind the methodology

• The method for gathering data

• Insiders, outsiders, multi-sited critics, and multiple critics

• Reflective opportunity

• Political moment

• Scholar as critic: promoting inquiry, deliberative opportunity, and institutional change

• Deliberative inquiry

• Guiding criteria

• Skeptical scrutiny

• Does experienced-based inquiry stop here?

6 Listening to the Silent Voices, Hearing Dissonance: A Methodology for Interpretation and Analysis

• Introduction: theoretical analysis with methodology?

• The method for analyzing data

• Insiders, outsiders, multi-sited critics, multiple critics, and silent or silenced critics

• Deliberative inquiry

• Guiding criteria

• Skeptical scrutiny

• Conclusion

PART III Immanent Universal Human Rights: Theory and Practice

7 An Immanent and Universal Theory of Human Rights

• Preface

• Introduction

• What’s the problem?

• Justificatory scheme and responsibilities

• Other approaches

• Immanent approach

• Roles and responsibilities

• Content, scope, and responsibilities

• Rights extended to all: the interrelatedness of people

• Indivisibility and structures: useful obstacles to delimiting the content of human rights

• Non-ideal theory at work: responsibilities without boundaries

• Transcendental universalisms (God or principles) in a non-ideal world?

• Immanent responsibility in a non-ideal world

• Conclusion

8 Terrain(s) of Difficulty: Obligation, Problem-Solving, and Trust

• Preface

• Introduction

• Working through the hard questions: obligation and tools

• Working through hard questions: illustration

• Competing rights

• Sexuality

• The big issue

• Trust and thinking through the terrain of difficulty

• Conclusion

9 Feminist Strategies

• Introduction

• Are immanent human rights universal?

• Strategies of local activism: working within in order to transform

• Strategies of transnational women’s human rights feminism

• Framing a myriad of concerns as ‘‘rights’’ issues

• Bringing local and particular issues to the global stage

• Rewriting international universal human rights such that violations of women’s human rights are recognized

• Channeling resources

• Contextualized human rights

• Transfer of leadership to the global South

• Bringing those working on similar issues in different places into dialogue with one another

• Bringing those working on separate issues into dialogue with one another

• Conclusion: guiding questions for activists’ work

  • Context assessment

  • Objectives and priorities

  • Dialogue

  • Dialogue partners

10 ‘‘If I Can Make a Circle’’

• IF I CAN MAKE A CIRCLE – TRIO

  • I

  • II

  • III

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