The Liberation Debate: Rights at Issue
This well-documented collection challenges the reader to examine and judge the arguments in six areas of contemporary unrest: women's liberation, black liberation, gay liberation, children's liberation, animal liberation and liberation in the Third World. It refrains from taking a single point of view, thus allowing the reader to gain an insight into the various aspects of the debate. Designed both for students and a general audience, The Liberation Debate encourages readers to become active...
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Talking about rights invariably sparks controversy. As soon as the rights of a minority are at the center of a discussion, it becomes very difficult to distinguish polemics from rational argument, and moral from political concerns. This well-documented collection challenges the reader to examine and judge the arguments in six areas of contemporary unrest: women's liberation, black liberation, gay liberation, children's liberation, animal liberation and liberation in the Third World. It refrains from taking a single point of view, thus allowing the reader to gain an insight into the various aspects of the debate. Designed both for students and a general audience, this volume encourages readers to become active participants in a lively and topical debate.
Notes on contributorsPreface1The Case for Feminism32A Response to Jean Hampton's Feminism253Hampton's Reply414Black Liberation - Yes!515Blacks Don't Need Liberating656Boxill's Reply827Lesbian and Gay Rights: Pro898Gay Reservations1089Nussbaum's Reply12510Liberating Children13511Children's Liberation: A Blueprint for Disaster14712Harris' Reply16313For Animal Rights17114Brute Equivocation18815Linzey's Reply20516A New Agenda for Society21317Some Procedural Problems22718Cohn-Sherbok's Reply24119Afterword246Index261
