Gender, Alterity and Human Rights
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) |
Download or read book Gender, Alterity and Human Rights 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. 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.