The discourse of human rights : 'an active enemy of women's progress'? -- Alan Gewirth's community of rights : feminism, liberalism and the value of community -- Political liberalism, feminism and the limits of an 'overlapping consensus' -- Nussbaum and the human capabilities approach : reconciling feminism and universalism? -- Discourse ethics, feminism and the return to the universal -- Opting out of women's human rights : reservations to human rights treaties and the defence of culture -- Debating gender in Ireland (1) : family values -- Debating gender in Ireland (2) : reproductive rights -- Women, human rights and cultural claims in Pakistan -- Debating gender equality in India : feminism and multicultural dilemmas
Summary
Argues that feminism must return to the universal and reconstruct the theory and practice of human rights. This work offers discourse ethics and its post-metaphysical defence of universalism as a key to this process of reconstruction. The implications of discourse ethics and the possibility of reclaiming universalism are also explored
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--European University Institute, Florence
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-251) and index
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