[lit-ideas] Re: Feminism's Failed Agenda?
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:04:43 +0900
On 3/9/06, JUDITH EVANS <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> the profound contradiction between the doctrine of
> individual human rights, in which rights are attached to human
> individuals and demands for equity rooted in attacks on categorical
> discrimination, and extreme forms of multiculturalism that attach
> rights to "cultures" conceived, like nations or corporations, as
> hyperindividuals to whom real individuals are subordinate like cells
> in an organism.
> <<<<<
>
> But many are aware of this problem, John.
>
Of course there are. Susan Sontag writing about human rights in China
comes immediately to my mind. Isn't it odd, then, that people like
Chesler maunder on as if this discussion had never taken place.
John
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd.
55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama 220-0006, JAPAN
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