Professor of Philosophy Diana Tietjens Meyers's Books

Gender in the Mirror

Cultural Imagery and Women's Agency

By: Diana T. Meyers

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Gender in the Mirror

Cultural Imagery and Women's Agency

By: Diana T. Meyers

In patriarchal cultures, people internalize cultural gender imagery that enshrines procreative heterosexuality and relations of domination and subordination between men and women. Once internalized, i.e. embedded in people's cognitive and emotional infrastructure, this imagery shapes, though it does not determine individual identity.

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0195140400

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9780195140408

From Cape Town to Kabul

Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights

By: Professor Penelope Andrews

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From Cape Town to Kabul

Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights

By: Professor Penelope Andrews

Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. By applying this process of legal transformation as a paradigm, the author applies this model to Afghanistan. These two societies serve as counterpoints through which the book engages, in a nuanced and novel way, with the many broader issues that flow from the attempts in newly democratic societies to give effect to the promise of gender equality. Developing the idea of ‘conditional interdependence’, the book suggests a new approach based on the communitarian values which underpin newly democratic societies and would allow women’s rights to gain momentum and reap greater benefits. Broad in its thematic approach, the book generates challenging and complex questions about the achievement of gender equality. It will be of interest to academics interested in gender and human rights, international and comparative law.

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354

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140947240X

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9781409472407

Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights

By: Diana T. Meyers

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Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights

By: Diana T. Meyers

Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights' addresses a set of critical topics that victims' stories of human rights abuse raise but that philosophers have thus far neglected: paradigms of victimhood and unjustifiable exclusions from the category of victim; narrative structures as constraints on victims' stories and as vehicles for articulating human rights norms; the role of emotional responses to victims' stories in discerning their normative significance; empathy with victims' stories as a pathway to moral understanding and human rights commitment; and the need for an ethical framework for obtaining victims' stories and for civil society institutions that can disseminate these stories for purposes of advancing human rights.

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0190490101

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9780190490102

Gender in the Mirror

Cultural Imagery & Women's Agency

By: Diana Tietjens Meyers

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Gender in the Mirror

Cultural Imagery & Women's Agency

By: Diana Tietjens Meyers

Harmful, culturally prevalent imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood constrains women's self-determination. Gender in the Mirror proposes alternative imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood and advances an account of feminist discursive politics that takes on the challenge of neutralizing patriarchal imagery.

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Oxford University Press

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019803220X

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9780198032205

Philosophical Papers

By: David Kellogg Lewis

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Philosophical Papers

By: David Kellogg Lewis

This collection of 15 essays by the influential American philosopher David Lewis is divided into three groups: ontology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

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0199833389

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9780199833382

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Gender in the Mirror

Gender in the Mirror

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