The Virtual Sociality of Rights: The Case of Women\u27s Rights are Human Rights

This essay traces the relationship between activists and academics involved in the campaign for women\u27s rights as human rights as a case study of the relationship between different classes of what I call knowledge professionals self-consciously acting in a transnational domain. The puzzle that animates this essay is the following: how was it that at the very moment at which a critique of rights and a reimagination of rights as rights talk proved to be such fertile ground for academic scholarship did the same rights prove to be an equally fertile ground for activist networking and lobbying activities? The paper answers this question with respect to the work of self-reflexivity in creating a virtual sociality of rights

Interview with Arvonne S. Fraser

Founder, Women’s Equity Action League, Washington, D.C. Interviewed by Julia Lamber on March 28, 2016, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ohtitleix/1011/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Arvonne S. Fraser

Founder, Women’s Equity Action League, Washington, D.C. Interviewed by Julia Lamber on March 28, 2016, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ohtitleix/1011/thumbnail.jp