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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| List of Key Human Rights Cases | |
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| List of Case Studies | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: A Human Rights Approach | |
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| Social equality and social justice | |
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| Social scientific approaches to the study of dominant/subordinate relations | |
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| The race and ethnic relations approach to dominant/subordinate relations | |
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| The deviance approach to dominant/subordinate relations | |
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| Limitations of social scientific approaches to the analysis of dominant/subordinate relations | |
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| The Human Rights Perspective: International Human Rights | |
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| Universal human rights | |
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| The development of international human rights covenants | |
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| The content of human rights provisions | |
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| Justifiable restrictions on human rights | |
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| Twin principles of human rights: human unity and cultural diversity | |
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| The debate over the universality of human rights | |
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| Cultural diversity and collective rights | |
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| Group-level rights and claims: distinguishing between collective and categorical group rights | |
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| Concluding commentary | |
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| The Social Construction of Inequality | |
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| Introduction: the invalidation of difference | |
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| The myth of racial inferiority and superiority | |
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| Race, ethnicity and human rights | |
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| White racism | |
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| Anti-Semitism | |
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| Heterosexism | |
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| Hate propaganda | |
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| Concluding commentary | |
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| Prejudice and Discrimination: Building Blocks of Social Inequality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Prejudice and discrimination | |
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| Forms and levels of discrimination | |
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| Discrimination of silence | |
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| The relationship between prejudice and discrimination | |
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| Prejudice or discrimination? | |
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| Concluding commentary | |
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| The Experience of Degradation, Abuse and the Harmful Impact of Hate | |
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| Violations of the rights of children | |
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| Violations of the human rights of members of vulnerable subordinate groups | |
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| The experience of racial degradation and discrimination by members of aboriginal subordinate groups | |
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| The experience of anti-Semitic degradation and discrimination by members of the Jewish subordinate population | |
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| The experience of heterosexist degradation and discrimination by members of the gay and lesbian subordinate population | |
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| The experience of abuse, degradation and hateful discrimination by members of subordinate populations | |
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| Concluding commentary | |
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| Equality/Equity-Seeking Protest Movements 1: Women's Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Strategies for change | |
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| Creating positive group identities | |
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| New social movements | |
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| The women's rights and liberation movement in democratic society | |
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| The backlash | |
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| After the millennium | |
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| Observations on Case Studies 5.1-5.3: views from the "other" women | |
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| Concluding commentary | |
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| Equality/Equity-Seeking Protest Movements 2: Gay and Lesbian Rights | |
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| The gay and lesbian rights and liberation movement | |
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| Sub-cultures versus ethnocultures | |
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| Gay and lesbian rights: critical issues for the twenty-first century | |
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| Concluding commentary | |
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| The Roots of the Aboriginal Movement: Colonialism and Cultural Genocide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Precursors of aboriginal protest | |
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| Extermination/genocide and assimilation/cultural genocide | |
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| Concluding commentary | |
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| Aboriginal Rights and New Nationhood Movements | |
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| Aboriginal protest movements as new social movements | |
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| Aboriginal rights and new nationhood movements | |
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| Concluding commentary | |
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| Conclusion: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Current Human Rights System | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The relationship between national and international dimensions of human rights | |
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| Claims put forward to the UN Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | |
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| Universality of human rights in cross-cultural context | |
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| Coalition-building for recognition and implementation of the human rights of subordinate groups | |
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| New social movements and coalition-building among subordinate groups | |
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| Concluding commentary | |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |