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Do you endorse that the conventional discourse on human rights has failed to include women’s rights? Explain in the context of feminist theories.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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The claim deserves qualified endorsement. The "rights of man" of Locke and the French Declaration (1789) were not meant to include women, as Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) and Olympe de Gouges (1791) protested at the time. The post-1945 regime is formally gender-neutral, yet feminist theorists show that its structure long kept most harms done to women…

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  • Why the conventional discourse excluded women
  • Reading the gap through feminist theories
  • How far the discourse has changed
  • Why the endorsement remains partial
  • Conclusion
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