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"Whose Right is it Anyway?: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Universal Human Rights Problem"

by Lucero Truszkowski | Xchanges 15.2, Fall 2020


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Contents

Introduction

History

Why the Rhetoric is Flawed

A More Flexible Set of Rights

Nondiscursive Rhetoric in the Illustrated UDHR

Conclusion

References

About the Author

References

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Barnard, Samuel. “On the Marxist Critique of Human Rights.” Academia.edu, www.academia.edu/3815310/On_the_Marxist_Critique_of_Human_Rights.

“Boxed In.” Human Rights Watch, 6 June 2017, www.hrw.org/report/2016/07/16/boxed/women-and-saudi-arabias-male-guardianship-system#.

Danchin, Peter. “Drafting History.” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Jan. 2002, http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/udhr/. 

“Cultural Relativism.” Cultural Anthropology. Lumen Learning, https://courses.lumenlearning.com/culturalanthropology/chapter/cultural-relativism/.

Gibson, Katie L. “In Defense of Women’s Rights: A Rhetorical Analysis of Judicial Dissent.” Women’s Studies in Communication, vol. 35, no. 2, 2012, pp. 123–137. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2012.724526.

Hansen, Terri. “How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped U.S. Democracy.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 17 Dec. 2018, www.pbs.org/native-america/blogs/native-voices/how-the-iroquois-great-law-of-peace-shaped-us-democracy/.

Hassan, Riffat. “Are Human Rights Compatible with Islam?: The Issue of the Rights of Women in Muslim Communities.” The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics, www.religiousconsultation.org/hassan2.htm#western.

Hesford, Wendy S. “Human Rights Rhetoric of Recognition.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, 2011, pp. 282–289, www.jstor.org/stable/23064468. 

Jain, Nilanjana. “Human Rights Under Democracy.” The Indian Journal of Political Science, vol. 67, no. 1, 2006, pp. 143–152, www.jstor.org/stable/41856200. 

Kirgis, Frederic. “Enforcing International Law.” The American Society of International Law, vol. 1, issue 1, 22 Jan. 1996, www.asil.org/insights/volume/1/issue/1/enforcing-international-law.

Kuran, Timur. “The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence.” The American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 53, no. 4, 2005, pp. 785–834, www.jstor.org/stable/30038724. 

Lyon, Arabella, and Lester C. Olson. “Special Issue on Human Rights Rhetoric: Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, 2011, pp. 203–212, www.jstor.org/stable/23064463.

Manzoor. Human Rights Nature, Concept, Origin and Development. ebook, Islamic Human Rights Commission, www.shiavault.com/books/human-rights-nature-concept-origin-and-development/. 

Midiri, Natalie K. “The Stylistic Effects of Human Rights Rhetoric: An Analysis of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2011 LGBT Human Rights Speech.” Young Scholars in Writing, vol. 10, Sept. 2015, pp. 97-104, https://youngscholarsinwriting.org/index.php/ysiw/article/view/156.

Shiman, David. “A Short History of Human Rights.” Edited by Nancy Flowers, A Short History of Human Rights, 1998, hrlibrary.umn.edu/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/Part-1/short-history.htm.

“The Meaning of Colors.” Changing Minds, changingminds.org/disciplines/communication/color_effect.htm.

United Nations. Illustrated Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, www.un.org/en/udhrbook/.

---. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/.

UN Women. “Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value.” www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/csw61/equal-pay.

"whereas." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2nd ed., The Gale Group, 2008, https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/whereas.

 

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