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Despite its pervasiveness, the presentation of political positions in terms of rights discourse — understood as the official ideology of liberalism — has been subjected to wide-ranging critiques: left, right and feminist. Two critiques of rights discourse have attracted critical feminist attention. The first is the communitarian criticism that rights discourse is divisive as between human individuals. The second is the new republicanism criticism that rights discourse is an obstacle to participation in democratic politics.
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Kingdom, E. (1996). Gender and Citizenship Rights. In: Demaine, J., Entwistle, H. (eds) Beyond Communitarianism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25207-7_3
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