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Negotiating culture and human rights

Title
Negotiating culture and human rights / Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, editors.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Bell, Lynda Schaefer.
  • Nathan, Andrew J. (Andrew James)
  • Peleg, Ilan, 1944-
Description
xiii, 428 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
Human rights > Cross-cultural studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: culture and human rights / Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg. -- Who produces Asian identity? : discourse, discrimination, and Chinese peasant women in the quest for human rights / Lynda S. Bell -- Getting beyond cross-talk: why persisting disagreements are philosophically nonfatal / Michael G. Barnhart -- Western defensiveness and the defense of rights: a communitarian alternative / Kenneth E. Morris -- Rights hunting in non-western traditions / Steven J. Hood -- How a liberal jurist defends the Bangkok Declaration / Michael W. Dowdle -- Are women human? the promise and perils of "women's rights as human rights" / Lucinda Joy Peach -- Re-positioning human rights discourse on "Asian" perspectives / Sharon K. Hom -- Human rights and the discourse on universality: a Chinese historical perspective / Xiaoqun Xu -- Jihad over human rights, human rights as jihad: clash of universals / Farhat Haq -- Universalization of the rejection of human rights: Russia's case / Dmitry Shlapentokh -- Ethnicity and human rights in contemporary democracies: Israel and other cases / Ilan Peleg -- Walking two roads: reading human rights in contemporary Chinese fiction / Tomas N. Santos -- Universalism: a particularistic account / Andrew J. Nathan -- Dedichotomizing discourse: three gorges, two cultures, one nature / Jennifer R. Goodman.
Call Number
JFE 01-6694
ISBN
  • 023112080X (alk. paper)
  • 0231120818 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
00060256
OCLC
44727695
Title
Negotiating culture and human rights / Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, editors.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Bell, Lynda Schaefer.
Nathan, Andrew J. (Andrew James)
Peleg, Ilan, 1944-
Research Call Number
JFE 01-6694
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