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Identities, Politics, and Rights.
Title:
Identities, Politics, and Rights.
Author:
Sarat, Austin.
ISBN:
9780472023776
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (448 pages)
Series:
The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
A reevaluation of how rights liberate and constrain human behavior.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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