Negotiating culture and human rights / Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, editors.

Other author Bell, Lynda Schaefer.
Other author Nathan, Andrew J. (Andrew James)
Other author Peleg, Ilan, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxiii, 428 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Human rights--Cross-cultural studies.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00060256
ISBN023112080X (alk. paper)
ISBN0231120818 (pbk. : alk. paper)