Negotiating culture and human rights /
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2001]
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Table of 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.