Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Constructs by Which We Live 1
5. 1. Bodily Integrity and Its Exclusions 15
6. 2. Embodying Human Rights: Toward a Phenomenology of Social Justice 47
7. 3. Constituting the Liberal Subject of Rights: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children 79
8. 4. Women’s Rights and the Lure of Self-Determination in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero 115
9. 5. J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: The Rights of Desire and the Embodied Lives of Animals 149
10. 6. Arundhati Roy’s “Return to the Things Themselves”: Phenomenology and the Challenge of Justice 186
11. Coda: Small Places, Close to Home 220
12. Notes 225
13. Works Cited 243
14. Index 259