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Social inequality and social injustice : a human rights perspective / Evelyn Kallen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Description: xvi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0333924266
  • 9780333924266
  • 0333924282
  • 9780333924280
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305 22
LOC classification:
  • HM821 .K35 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: A Human Rights Approach -- 1. The Human Rights Perspective International Human Rights -- 2. The Social Construction of Inequality -- 3. Prejudice and Discrimination: Building Blocks of Social Inequality -- 4. The Experience of Degradation, Abuse and the Harmful Impact of Hate -- 5. Equality/Equity-Seeking Protest Movements 1: Women's Rights -- 6. Equality/Equity-Seeking Protest Movement 2: Gay and Lesbian Rights -- 7. The Roots of the Aboriginal Movement: Colonialism and Cultural Genocide -- 8. Aboriginal Rights and New Nationhood Movements -- 9. Conclusion: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Current Human Rights System -- App. A. Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- App. B. Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Summary: "This book uses a human rights framework to analyze how group-level social inequalities and injustices are socially constructed and maintained through violations of human rights on grounds of race, gender, sexuality, etc., and how human rights legislation can help such violations to effectively be redressed. Although it focuses primarily on democratic nations, it uses international case material to highlight key global issues."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A Human Rights Approach -- 1. The Human Rights Perspective International Human Rights -- 2. The Social Construction of Inequality -- 3. Prejudice and Discrimination: Building Blocks of Social Inequality -- 4. The Experience of Degradation, Abuse and the Harmful Impact of Hate -- 5. Equality/Equity-Seeking Protest Movements 1: Women's Rights -- 6. Equality/Equity-Seeking Protest Movement 2: Gay and Lesbian Rights -- 7. The Roots of the Aboriginal Movement: Colonialism and Cultural Genocide -- 8. Aboriginal Rights and New Nationhood Movements -- 9. Conclusion: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Current Human Rights System -- App. A. Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- App. B. Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"This book uses a human rights framework to analyze how group-level social inequalities and injustices are socially constructed and maintained through violations of human rights on grounds of race, gender, sexuality, etc., and how human rights legislation can help such violations to effectively be redressed. Although it focuses primarily on democratic nations, it uses international case material to highlight key global issues."--Publisher description.

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