Challenges in international human rights law

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Series Preface" -- "Introduction" -- "PART I: CONTENTS AND SCOPE" -- "Universality" -- "1 On the Universality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" -- "1. The Origins of Human Rights" -- "2. Individual Rights and Human Rights" -- "3. The Eighteenth and the Twentieth-Century Theories of Rights" -- "4. Conclusion: Human Rights as the Language of the Oppressed and the Language of Power" -- "2 Human Rights in Islam and International Law: A Conceptual Analysis" -- "The Definitional Debate and Nature Of Human Rights" -- "Foundations of Human Rights in the 'Western' Tradition" -- "Sources of Human Rights in Islam" -- "'Secular' and 'Western' versus 'Divine' and 'Islamic' Human Rights: A Clash of Traditions?" -- "Rights-based and Duty-based Human Rights: A Valid Distinction?" -- "Islam, Human Rights and Individualism" -- "Human Rights as Hierarchical Entitlements? Rights of White, Free, Male, Elite in the 'Western' Tradition and Entitlements of Adult, Free, Male, Muslims in the Islamic" -- "Concluding Remarks" -- "3 Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, and Human Rights" -- "INTRODUCTION" -- "I. CULTURAL RELATNISM VS. UNIVERSALISM" -- "II. THE CHALLENGE OF FEMINIST ANTI-ESSENTIALISM" -- "A. Global Feminist Politics and the Appeal of Essentialism" -- "B. Anti-essentialism, Cultural Relativism, and Feminist Human Rights Activism" -- "III. UNPACKING THE LOGIC OF RELATIVISM" -- "A. Contingency Does Not Entail Radical Relativism" -- "B. Two Views on Culture and Coercion" -- "1. Cultural Relativism: Essentializing Culture, Obscuring Coercion" -- "2. Feminist Anti-Essentialism: Complicating Coercion" -- "IV. CULTURE AS A LENS ON GENDER" -- "A. Social Construction and the Problem of Agency" -- "B. The Risks and Rewards of Cross-Cultural Feminism