Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chapter 1. The Return of the Prodigal: The 1970s as a Turning Point in Human Rights History 1
4. Chapter 2. The Dystopia of Postcolonial Catastrophe: Self-Determination, the Biafran War of Secession, and the 1970s Human Rights Moment 15
5. Chapter 3. The Disenchantment of Socialism: Soviet Dissidents, Human Rights, and the New Global Morality 33
6. Chapter 4. Dictatorship and Dissent: Human Rights in East Germany in the 1970s 49
7. Chapter 5. Whose Utopia? Gender, Ideology, and Human Rights at the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin 68
8. Chapter 6. “Magic Words” The Advent of Transnational Human Rights Activism in Latin America’s Southern Cone in the Long 1970s 88
9. Chapter 7. Shifting Sites of Argentine Advocacy and the Shape of 1970s Human Rights Debates 107
10. Chapter 8. Oasis in the Desert? America’s Human Rights Rediscovery 125
11. Chapter 9. Human Rights and the U.S. Republican Party in the Late 1970s 146
12. Chapter 10. The Polish Opposition, the Crisis of the Gierek Era, and the Helsinki Process 166
13. Chapter 11. “Human Rights Are Like Coca-Cola” Contested Human Rights Discourses in Suharto’s Indonesia, 1968–1980 186
14. Chapter 12. Why South Africa? The Politics of Anti-Apartheid Activism in Britain in the Long 1970s 204
15. Chapter 13. The Rebirth of Politics from the Spirit of Morality: Explaining the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s 226
16. Notes 261
17. Contributors 327
18. Index 329
19. Acknowledgments 339