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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 July 2010
      26 June 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511756016
      9780521881265
      9780521707558
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511756016
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 388 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 388 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Law, Human Rights, Politics and International Relations
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    Book description

    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.

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    ‘As an activist I find Ackerly's theorizing of human rights in action so insightful. She gives a name to our approach - curb-cut feminism: by being humble and attentive to those made invisible or 'different' by the mainstream we are better able to realize universal human rights. This book is a very useful map for anyone committed to justice in an often messy terrain.’

    Joanna Kerr - former Executive Director of AWID, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development

    ‘A stunning achievement. Ackerly takes up the daunting - some would say insuperable - challenge of developing a universal theory of human rights that does not entail cultural imperialism. With the concerns of activists and politics of difference as her starting points, she thinks outside of the box that has limited our understanding of, and ability to realize, universal human rights. This extremely thoughtful and closely argued text will stimulate debate and, I hope, revitalize activism.’

    V. Spike Peterson - Department of Political Science, University of Arizona

    '[Universal] Human Rights in a World of Difference is a highly valuable, provocative work that contributes a new way of thinking and talking about universal human rights. … This work should be widely read and discussed by scholars in the fields of human rights and feminist international relations.'

    Source: Politics and Gender

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