| Description |
xiii, 428 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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 -- |
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Dedichotomizing discourse: three gorges, two cultures, one nature / Jennifer R. Goodman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
Nathan, Andrew J. (Andrew James)
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Peleg, Ilan, 1944-
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Bell, Lynda Schaefer.
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| LC no. |
00060256 |
| ISBN |
023112080X cased |
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0231120818 paperback |
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