Oonagh Reitman, in his journal article “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friend or Foes?” tried to analyse and elaborate the relation between cultural relativist and feminist in their debate against the International Human Rights. The debates against the international human rights were not something which difficult to find in the late 20th centuries, included in those was the debate issued by the cultural relativists and the feminists. Both sides have different bases; one is based on culture while the other is based on gender. Their points of views regarding the international human rights are also different, leading to different arguments they issued.
Reitman has clearly mentioned the kind of critique …show more content…
It was quite apparent that there were two opposite camps in the conference; the universalist who fully supported the international human rights method of application, and the cultural relativist who opted for the opposite. The rejecting notions issued by the cultural relativist were mostly based on religious arguments by the Catholic and the Islam. Through the conference, the cultural relativist strongly emphasized to the international community that to follow and comply with the international human rights would mean that they were allowing a form of cultural imperialism to happen, which was not what they …show more content…
However, he seemed rather biased and not as logical and analytical in his concluding section. Reitman expressed his hope for the cooperation between feminist and cultural relativist. In his arguments before, he did not really point out any strong arguments on why or how this wish might be realized. On the contrary, he mentioned and enlisted points in which both sides are disagreeing on. It gives the impression that he was hoping for something which is quite impossible. It also gives him the image of being unclear in setting his arguments and conclusion, also being inconsistent in maintaining his point. As an addition, he has called his own proposition naïve, which made his hope not at all
Reitman has clearly mentioned the kind of critique …show more content…
It was quite apparent that there were two opposite camps in the conference; the universalist who fully supported the international human rights method of application, and the cultural relativist who opted for the opposite. The rejecting notions issued by the cultural relativist were mostly based on religious arguments by the Catholic and the Islam. Through the conference, the cultural relativist strongly emphasized to the international community that to follow and comply with the international human rights would mean that they were allowing a form of cultural imperialism to happen, which was not what they …show more content…
However, he seemed rather biased and not as logical and analytical in his concluding section. Reitman expressed his hope for the cooperation between feminist and cultural relativist. In his arguments before, he did not really point out any strong arguments on why or how this wish might be realized. On the contrary, he mentioned and enlisted points in which both sides are disagreeing on. It gives the impression that he was hoping for something which is quite impossible. It also gives him the image of being unclear in setting his arguments and conclusion, also being inconsistent in maintaining his point. As an addition, he has called his own proposition naïve, which made his hope not at all