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From the diverse work and often competing insights of women's human rights activists, Brooke Ackerly has written a feminist and a universal theory of human rights that bridges the relativists' concerns about universalizing from particulars and the activists' commitment to justice. Unlike universal theories that rely on shared commitments to divine authority or to an 'enlightened' way of reasoning, Ackerly's theory relies on rigorous methodological attention to difference and disagreement. She sets out human rights as at once a research ethic, a tool for criticism of injustice and a call to recognize our obligations to promote justice through our actions. This book will be of great interest to political theorists, feminist and gender studies scholars and researchers of social movements.

Human rights --- Human Rights --- Feminist theory --- Feminist theory. --- Human rights. --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Philosophy --- Law and legislation --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women’s rights movement but was also the movement’s principal philosopher. Her ideas both drew from and challenged the conventions that so severely constrained women’s choices and excluded them from public life. In The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sue Davis argues that Cady Stanton’s work reflects the rich tapestry of American political culture in the second half of the nineteenth century and that she deserves recognition as a major figure in the history of political ideas. Davis reveals the way that Cady Stanton’s work drew from different political traditions ranging from liberalism, republicanism, inegalitarian ascriptivism, and radicalism. Cady Stanton’s arguments for women’s rights combined approaches that in contemporary feminist theory are perceived to involve conflicting strategies and visions. Nevertheless, her ideas had a major impact on the development of the varieties of feminism in the twentieth century. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton draws on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources and promises to fill a gap in the literature on the history of political ideas in the United States as well as women’s history and feminist theory.

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A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.

Science --- Technology --- Philosophy --- Civilization, Modern. --- Women in science. --- Feminist theory. --- Technology and civilization --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Minorities in science --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- History. --- History

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Liberty --- Constructivism (Philosophy) --- Sex role --- Women's rights --- Social classes --- Feminist theory --- Liberté --- Constructivisme (Philosophie) --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Femmes --- Classes sociales --- Théorie féministe --- Philosophy --- Political aspects --- Philosophie --- Aspect politique --- Droits --- Liberté --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Théorie féministe --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group of feminist thinkers challenges the assumptions and norms that have previously defined studies about the body. These wide-ranging essays grapple with topics such as the material reality of race, the significance of sexual difference, the impact of disability experience, and the complex interaction between nature and culture in traumatic events such as Hurricane Katrina. By insisting on the importance of materiality, this volume breaks new ground in philosophy, feminist theory, cultural studies, science studies, and other fields where the body and nature collide.

Human body. --- Feminist theory. --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Philosophy --- Etnicitet. --- Feminismus. --- Feministisk teori --- Feministisk teori. --- Kropp. --- Körper. --- Naturkatastrofer --- Utvecklingslära --- Filosofi --- Beteende --- Könsolikheter. --- Feminism. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Materialism. --- Physicalism --- Animism --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- Feminist Ethics --- Ethics, Feminist --- Women's Rights --- Nature --- Body --- Theory --- Biotechnology --- Book