Authors: Michael Leahy (Editor), Dan Cohn-Sherbok
ISBN-13: 9780415116930, ISBN-10: 0415116937
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: May 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Talking about rights invariably sparks controversy. As soon as the rights of a minority are at the center of a discussion, it becomes very difficult to distinguish polemics from rational argument, and moral from political concerns. This well-documented collection challenges the reader to examine and judge the arguments in six areas of contemporary unrest: women's liberation, black liberation, gay liberation, children's liberation, animal liberation and liberation in the Third World. It refrains from taking a single point of view, thus allowing the reader to gain an insight into the various aspects of the debate. Designed both for students and a general audience, this volume encourages readers to become active participants in a lively and topical debate.
Notes on contributors | ||
Preface | ||
1 | The Case for Feminism | 3 |
2 | A Response to Jean Hampton's Feminism | 25 |
3 | Hampton's Reply | 41 |
4 | Black Liberation - Yes! | 51 |
5 | Blacks Don't Need Liberating | 65 |
6 | Boxill's Reply | 82 |
7 | Lesbian and Gay Rights: Pro | 89 |
8 | Gay Reservations | 108 |
9 | Nussbaum's Reply | 125 |
10 | Liberating Children | 135 |
11 | Children's Liberation: A Blueprint for Disaster | 147 |
12 | Harris' Reply | 163 |
13 | For Animal Rights | 171 |
14 | Brute Equivocation | 188 |
15 | Linzey's Reply | 205 |
16 | A New Agenda for Society | 213 |
17 | Some Procedural Problems | 227 |
18 | Cohn-Sherbok's Reply | 241 |
19 | Afterword | 246 |
Index | 261 |