Human rights in the United States : beyond exceptionalism
Foreword: are Americans human? Reflections on the future of progressive politics in the United States Dorothy Q. Thomas 1. Paradoxes and possibilities: domestic human rights policy in context Kathryn Libal and Shareen Hertel Part I. Structuring Debates, Institutionalizing Rights: 2. The yellow sweatshirt: human dignity and economic human rights in advanced industrialized democracies Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann 3. The welfare state: a battleground for human rights Mimi Abramovitz 4. Drawing lines in the sand: building economic and social rights in the United States Cathy Albisa 5. State and local commissions as sites for domestic human rights implementation Risa Kaufman Part II. Challenging Public/Private Divides: 6. The curious resistance to seeing domestic violence as a human rights violation in the United States Sally Engle Merry and Jessica Shimmin 7. At the crossroads: children's rights and the US government Jonathan Todres 8. Entrenched inequity: healthcare in the United States Jean Connolly Carmalt, Sarah Zaidi and Alicia Ely Yamin 9. Business and human rights: a new approach to advancing environmental justice in the United States Joanne Bauer Part III. From the Margins to the Center: Making Harms Visible through Human Rights Framing: 10. The law and politics of US participation in the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities Michael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord 11. The anomaly of citizenship for indigenous rights Bethany R. Berger 12. Human rights violations as obstacles to escaping poverty: the case of lone mother-headed families Ken Neubeck 13. The human rights of children in conflict with the law: lessons for the US human rights movement Mie Lewis 14. LGBT rights as human rights in the United States: opportunities lost Julie Mertus 15. No shelter: disaster politics in Louisiana and the struggle for human rights Davida Finger and Rachel E. Luft.
Women's Rights are Human Rights Redux: Ain't I a Human?
Like many other Americans, women continue to struggle for meaningful economic and social equality even though the U.S. is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This international human rights instrument guarantees equality, yet equality remains elusive in the U.S. Most lawyers look to litigation to enforce rights, but in the context of equality, litigation alone does not achieve the level of social change that can eliminate the distances between the haves and the have-nots. This article proposes that the U.S. should adopt the model of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions to begin the conversations that must take place before this country can begin to recover from its discriminatory past. The law alone is not enough. Meaningful change will only happen when our culture refuses to accept discrimination in any form. To reach that goal, feminist legal scholars and all human rights advocates must move beyond the identity politics that characterize the status quo. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions offer the platform from which we might begin to internalize the notion that women’s rights are, indeed, human rights.
Repressive coping before and after diagnosis of breast cancer
Objective: The aim was to investigate to which extent emotional repression is a premorbid coping tendency of cancer patients and/or a coping response to the threat posed by a cancer diagnosis. The results of one previous study of breast cancer patients suggest the latter possibility, and our aim was to replicate and extend these findings.