Wollstonecraft, Mill, and women's human rights / Eileen Hunt Botting.
2016
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Title
Wollstonecraft, Mill, and women's human rights / Eileen Hunt Botting.
Imprint
New Haven, [Connecticut] : Yale University Press 2016.
Description
1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: Women's Human Rights as Integral to Universal Human Rights
A Philosophical Genealogy of Women's Human Rights
Foundations of Universal Human Rights: Wollstonecraft's Rational Theology and Mill's Liberal Utilitarianism
Theories of Human Development: Wollstonecraft and Mill on Sex, Gender and Education
The Problem of Cultural Bias: Wollstonecraft, Mill and Western Narratives of Women's Progress
Human Stories: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and the Literature of Human Rights.
A Philosophical Genealogy of Women's Human Rights
Foundations of Universal Human Rights: Wollstonecraft's Rational Theology and Mill's Liberal Utilitarianism
Theories of Human Development: Wollstonecraft and Mill on Sex, Gender and Education
The Problem of Cultural Bias: Wollstonecraft, Mill and Western Narratives of Women's Progress
Human Stories: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and the Literature of Human Rights.
Summary
This book argues that Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill are the two primary architects of the modern theory of women rights as human rights. It only through addressing women rights, Botting argues, that the idea of human rights was given universal scope and application. Botting describes the development of the idea of women human rights beginning with the work of Wollstonecraft and Mill, and gives an account of their reception in both western and nonwestern contexts. Her goal is to strip liberal feminism of its Eurocentric bias and offer the theory that remains as a resource for thinking about women human rights globally.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliography.
Source of Description
Title from PDF title page (viewed 18 August 2016)
Location
WWW
Available in Other Form
Print version: Botting, Eileen Hunt. Wollstonecraft, Mill, and women's human rights. New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2016
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Language
English
ISBN
9780300186161 electronic book
0300186169 electronic book
0300186150
9780300186154
0300186150
9780300186154
0300186169 electronic book
0300186150
9780300186154
0300186150
9780300186154
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