Gender, Alterity and Human Rights
Download or Read eBook Gender, Alterity and Human Rights PDF written by Ratna Kapur and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Ratna Kapur |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2018-07-27 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781788112536 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1788112539 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gender, Alterity and Human Rights by : Ratna Kapur
Book excerpt: Human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. Yet more rights for women, sexual and religious minorities, has had disempowering and exclusionary effects. Revisiting campaigns for same-sex marriage, violence against women, and Islamic veil bans, Gender, Alterity and Human Rights lays bare how human rights emerge as a project of containment and unfreedom rather than meaningful freedom. Kapur provocatively argues that the futurity of human rights rests in turning away from liberal freedom and towards non-liberal registers of freedom.
