Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights / Eileen Hunt Botting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Eileen M., 1971- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.

Wollstonecraft, Mary.

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.

Mill, John Stuart.

Women's rights--History.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Haven Yale University Press 2016

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

How can women's rights be seen as a universal value rather than a Western value imposed upon the rest of the world? Addressing this question, Eileen Hunt Botting offers the first comparative study of writings by Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. Although Wollstonecraft and Mill were the primary philosophical architects of the view that women's rights are human rights, Botting shows how non-Western thinkers have revised and internationalized their original theories since the nineteenth century. Botting explains why this revised and internationalized theory of women's human rights-grown out of Wollstonecraft and Mill but stripped of their Eurocentric biases-is an important contribution to thinking about human rights in truly universal terms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Women's Human Rights as Integral to Universal Human Rights

One. A Philosophical Genealogy of Women's Human Rights

Two. Foundations of Universal Human Rights: Wollstonecraft's Rational Theology and Mill's Liberal Utilitarianism

Three. Theories of Human Development: Wollstonecraft and Mill on Sex, Gender, and Education

Four. The Problem of Cultural Bias: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Western Narratives of Women's Progress

Five.Human Stories: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and the Literature of Human Rights

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780300186161 ‡q (electronic bk.)

0300186169 ‡q (electronic bk.)

OCLC:

1143797965