Human rights in the United States : beyond exceptionalism /

Human rights in the United States : beyond exceptionalism /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 366 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Human rights -- United States.
Human rights.
United States.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11827260
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Other authors / contributors:Hertel, Shareen.
Libal, Kathryn, 1968-
ISBN:9781139078900
1139078909
9780511842269
0511842260
9781107008465
1107008468
9781107400870
1107400872
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"This book brings to light emerging evidence of a shift toward a fuller engagement with international human rights norms and their application to domestic policy dilemmas in the United States. The volume offers a rich history, spanning close to three centuries, of the marginalization of human rights discourse in the United States. Contributors analyze particular cases of U.S. human rights advocacy aimed at addressing persistent inequalities within the United States itself, including advocacy on the rights of persons with disabilities; indigenous peoples; lone mother-headed families; incarcerated persons; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people; and those displaced by natural disasters, most notably Hurricane Katrina. The book also explores key arenas in which legal scholars, policy practitioners, and grassroots activists are challenging multiple divides between "public" and "private" spheres (for example, in connection with children's rights and domestic violence) and between "public" and "private" sectors (specifically, in relation to healthcare and business and human rights)"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Print version: Human rights in the United States. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107008465
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: are Americans human?: reflections on the future of progressive politics in the United States / Dorothy Q. Thomas
  • 1. Paradoxes and possibilities: domestic human rights policy in context / Kathryn Libal and Shareen Hertel
  • Section I. Structuring Debates, Institutionalizing Rights: 2. The yellow sweatshirt: human dignity and economic human rights in advanced industrialized democracies / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann; 3. The U.S. welfare state: a battleground for human rights / Mimi Abramovitz; 4. Drawing lines in the sand: building economic and social rights in the United States / Cathy Albisa; 5. State and local commissions as sites for domestic human rights implementation / Risa E. Kaufman
  • Section II. Challenging Public/Private Divides: 6. The curious resistance to seeing domestic violence as a human rights violation in the United States / Sally Engle Merry and Jessica Shimmin; 7. At the crossroads: children's rights and the U.S. government / Jonathan Todres; 8. Entrenched inequity: healthcare in the United States / Jean Connolly Carmalt, Sarah Zaidi, and Alicia Ely Yamin; 9. Business and human rights: a new approach to advancing environmental justice in the United States / Joanne Bauer
  • Section III. From the Margins to the Center: Making Harms Visible through Human Rights Framing: 10. The law and politics of U.S. participation in the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities / Michael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord; 11. The anomaly of citizenship for indigenous rights / Bethany R. Berger; 12. Human rights violations as obstacles to escaping poverty: the case of lone mother-headed families / Ken Neubeck; 13. T he human rights of children in conflict with the law: lessons for the U.S. human rights movement / Mie Lewis; 14. LGBT rights as human rights in the United States: opportunities lost / Julie Mertus; 15. No shelter: disaster politics in Louisiana and the struggle for human rights / Davida Finger and Rachel E. Luft.

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