Negotiating culture and human rights / Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, editors.
2001
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Title
Negotiating culture and human rights / Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, editors.
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
Copyright
©2001
Call Number
JX4263.P3 N312 2001
ISBN
023112080X (alk. paper)
0231120818 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231120818 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xiii, 428 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)44727695
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Pt. 1
Human Rights and the Asian Values Debate
Introduction: Culture and Human Rights / Lynda S. Bell Andrew J. Nathan Ilan Peleg
3
1Who Produces Asian Identity? Discourse, Discrimination, and Chinese Peasant Women in the Quest for Human Rights / Lynda S. Bell
21
Pt. 2
Culturally Informed Arguments for Universal Human Rights
2Getting Beyond Cross-Talk: Why Persisting Disagreements Are Philosophically Nonfatal / Michael G. Barnhart
45
3Western Defensiveness and the Defense of Rights: A Communitarian Alternative / Kenneth E. Morris
68
4Rights Hunting in Non-Western Traditions / Steven J. Hood
96
Pt. 3
Human Rights Law and Its Limits
5How a Liberal Jurist Defends the Bangkok Declaration / Michael W. Dowdle
125
6Are Women Human? The Promise and Perils of "Women's Rights as Human Rights" / Lucinda Joy Peach
153
7Re-Positioning Human Rights Discourse on "Asian" Perspectives / Sharon K. Hom
197
Pt. 4
Rights Discourse and Power Relations
8Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective / Xiaoqun Xu
217
9Jihad Over Human Rights, Human Rights as Jihad: Clash of Universals / Farhat Haq
242
10Universalization of the Rejection of Human Rights: Russia's Case / Dmitry Shlopentokh
258
11Ethnicity and Human Rights in Contemporary Democracies: Israel and Other Cases / Ilan Peleg
303
12Walking Two Roads: Reading Human Rights in Contemporary Chinese Fiction / Tomas N. Santos
334
Pt. 5
Beyond Universalism and Relativism
13Universalism: A Particularistic Account / Andrew J. Nathan
349
14Dedichotomizing Discourse: Three Gorges, Two Cultures, One Nature / Jennifer R. Goodman
369
App. A
Universal Declaration on Human Rights
383
App. B
Bangkok Declaration on Human Rights
390
App. C
Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human Rights
395
App. D
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
404
Index
415