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Gender, Alterity and Human Rights

Freedom in a Fishbowl
Elgar Studies in Legal Theory
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.
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Monograph Book
Published:
27 Jul 2018
Print ISBN:
9781788112529
eISBN:
9781788112536
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112536
Pages:
c 328
Collection:
Law 2018
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