Antislavery and Human Rights : Problems of Representation

Amy Dru Stanley,
Professeur au département d’histoire
à l’Université de Chicago

The question still compels attention, as it has since the advent of modern democratic revolution - does the peculiar abjection of women violate values considered human ? Do women’s rights represent human rights ? Stanley addresses this question by looking at a particular historical moment — the crisis of American slavery and emancipation — and rights arguments advanced by persons unfree by dint of chattel slavery and of sex. At the heart of this historical crisis lay the conflict between affirmations of inalienable, universal human rights and assumptions of inequality based on immutable physical differences.

Quand ?
le Vendredi 27 mars 2009
à 16:15,

Où ?
3150 Jean-Brillant
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
Salle C-8111

The lecture will be held Friday, March 27, 2009 at 4:15 at the Pavillion Lionel-Groulx, 3150 Jean-Brillant, Room C-8111.