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Identities, Politics, and Rights.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (448 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472023776
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Identities, Politics, and RightsDDC classification:
  • 323
LOC classification:
  • JC571
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Introduction / Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns -- Part 1: Rights and the Constitution of the Self -- Bodily Integrity and the Right to Abortion / Drucilla Cornell -- Rights and Identity in Late Modernity: Revisiting the "Jewish Question" / Wendy Brown -- Reincarnation as the Ring on Liz Taylor's Finger: Andy Warhol and the Right of Publicity / Jane Gaines -- Taking Liberties in Foucault's Triangle: Sovereignty, Discipline, Governmentality, and the Subject of Rights / Kirstie M. McClure -- The Discourse of Rights in Colonial South Africa: Subjectivity, Sovereignty, Modernity / John Comaroff -- Part 2: Rights in Political Struggles -- Nothing Left but Rights: Law in the Struggle against Apartheid / Richard L. Abel -- Wife Battering and the Ambiguities of Rights / Sally Engle Merry -- The First Amendment and the Meaning of America / Steven Shiffrin -- Rights and Cultural Difference / Martha Minow -- Is Nationalism Compatible with Human Rights? Reflections on East-Central Europe / Elizabeth Kiss -- The Next American Revolution / Bruce Ackerman -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: A reevaluation of how rights liberate and constrain human behavior.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Introduction / Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns -- Part 1: Rights and the Constitution of the Self -- Bodily Integrity and the Right to Abortion / Drucilla Cornell -- Rights and Identity in Late Modernity: Revisiting the "Jewish Question" / Wendy Brown -- Reincarnation as the Ring on Liz Taylor's Finger: Andy Warhol and the Right of Publicity / Jane Gaines -- Taking Liberties in Foucault's Triangle: Sovereignty, Discipline, Governmentality, and the Subject of Rights / Kirstie M. McClure -- The Discourse of Rights in Colonial South Africa: Subjectivity, Sovereignty, Modernity / John Comaroff -- Part 2: Rights in Political Struggles -- Nothing Left but Rights: Law in the Struggle against Apartheid / Richard L. Abel -- Wife Battering and the Ambiguities of Rights / Sally Engle Merry -- The First Amendment and the Meaning of America / Steven Shiffrin -- Rights and Cultural Difference / Martha Minow -- Is Nationalism Compatible with Human Rights? Reflections on East-Central Europe / Elizabeth Kiss -- The Next American Revolution / Bruce Ackerman -- Contributors -- Index.

A reevaluation of how rights liberate and constrain human behavior.

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