Introduction: Culture and Human Rights

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Part 1. Human Rights and the Asian Values Debate
6. Introduction: Culture and Human Rights 3
7. 1. Who Produces Asian Identity? Discourse, Discrimination, and Chinese Peasant Women in the Quest for Human Rights 21
8. Part 2. Culturally Informed Arguments for Universal Human Rights
9. 2. Getting Beyond Cross-Talk: Why Persisting Disagreements Are Philosophically Nonfatal 45
10. 3. Western Defensiveness and the Defense of Rights: A Communitarian Alternative 68
11. 4. Rights Hunting in Non-Western Traditions 96
12. Part 3. Human Rights Law and Its Limits
13. 5. How a Liberal Jurist Defends the Bangkok Declaration 125
14. 6. Are Women Human? The Promise and Perils of “Women’s Rights as Human Rights” 153
15. 7. Repositioning Human Rights Discourse on “Asian” Perspectives 197
16. Part 4. Rights Discourse and Power Relations
17. 8. Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective 217
18. 9. Jihad Over Human Rights, Human Rights as Jihad: Clash of Universals 242
19. 10. Universalization of the Rejection of Human Rights: Russia’s Case 258
20. 11. Ethnicity and Human Rights in Contemporary Democracies: Israel and Other Cases 303
21. 12. Walking Two Roads: Reading Human Rights in Contemporary Chinese Fiction 334
22. Part 5. Beyond Universalism and Relativism
23. 13. Universalism: A Particularistic Account 349
24. 14. Dedichotomizing Discourse: Three Gorges, Two Cultures, One Nature 369
25. Appendix A: Universal Declaration on Human Rights 383
26. Appendix B: Bangkok Declaration on Human Rights 390
27. Appendix C: Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human Rights 395
28. Appendix D: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 404
29. Index 415