Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision By Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 205 pages. $72 (cloth), $22.95 (paper)

Social Forces ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 1817-1819
Author(s):  
B. S. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Liberal Vision

scholarly journals Fay Weldon, liberal feminism and the praxis of Praxis

Literator ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
A. Foley
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Individual Liberty ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Praxis I ◽  
Liberal Vision ◽  
Main Protagonist

This article focuses on Fay Weldon’s novel, “Praxis”, as a means of exploring the concept of “liberal feminism”. “Praxis” charts the development of the eponymous main protagonist from a woman complicit in her own patriarchal oppression to a radical feminist activist and finally to the point where she comes to a liberal realisation of the nuances of individual women’s experiences and the complexity of emancipation. The novel may be regarded as a liberal feminist text in its emphasis on both gender equality and individual liberty, and in its insistence that society may be positively reformed within the paradigm of the liberal state and without resorting to radical extremism. Published in 1978, the novel anticipates the later shift in feminist thinking from an exclusive concern with women’s rights to a more inclusive liberal vision of human rights.

“There Is an Eye on Us”: International Imitation, Popular Representation, and the Regulation of Homosexuality in Senegal

2021 ◽  
pp. 000312242110265
Author(s):  
Jason L. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
World Society ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Global Field ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Legal Legitimacy ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Liberal Vision ◽  
Global Scripts

Drawing on data from Senegal, this article develops the concept of pockets of world society to explain how adherence to a liberal vision of gay rights emerges within an otherwise illiberal legal landscape. Pockets of world society appear at the site where the global field of human rights penetrates the national juridical field. Senegal’s Ministry of Justice sits at this juncture. It is a member of both fields but tends toward a logic of international imitation. The ministry accommodates world society’s stance on homosexuality, offering a moderate re-interpretation of its nation’s criminalization, and quietly circumventing local law to enact global scripts of sexual actorhood. In stark contrast, Senegalese courts, located solely within the national juridical field, adhere to a logic of popular representation, rejecting sexual self-determination, insisting on national sovereignty, and carrying out the nation’s criminalization of homosexuality in accordance with both law and collective will. These conflicting logics are driven by external pressures, field membership and position, professional trajectories, and sources of legal legitimacy and social accountability. Finally, I contend that the conflict in Senegal spotlights not only world society’s limits, but its persistent strength and its ability to disrupt the coherence of the law.

Human Rights and Law

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Kumar Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights
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