Human rights in the United States : beyond exceptionalism /

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Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 366 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12598689
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Other authors / contributors:Hertel, Shareen, editor.
Libal, Kathryn, 1968- editor.
ISBN:9780511842269 (ebook)
9781107008465 (hardback)
9781107400870 (paperback)
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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 cases of US 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. It 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).
Other form:Print version: 9781107008465