Brooke A. Ackerly is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (Cambridge, 2000) and co-editor of Feminist Methodologies for International Relations (Cambridge, 2006).
1. Universal human rights in a world of difference: challenging our
thinking; Part I. Epistemology, Diversity, and Disagreement in Theory and
Practice: 2. Universal human rights?; 3. Universalisms and differences; 4.
Immanent and universal human rights: more legitimate than reasonable; Part
II. A Methodology for Immanent Theory: 5. Feminist curb cutting: a
methodology for exposing silences and revealing differences: immanent study
of universal human rights; 6. Listening to the silent voices, hearing
dissonance: a methodology for interpretation and analysis; Part III.
Immanent Universal Human Rights: Theory and Practice: 7. An immanent and
universal theory of human rights: curb cutting in theory; 8. Terrain(s) of
difficulty: obligation, problem-solving and trust; 9. Feminist strategies;
10. 'If I can make a circle'.