{"id":1505,"date":"2026-08-09T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-endorse-that-the-conventional-discourse-on-human-rights-upsc-psir-2018-3801\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:31","slug":"do-you-endorse-that-the-conventional-discourse-on-human-rights-upsc-psir-2018-3801","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-endorse-that-the-conventional-discourse-on-human-rights-upsc-psir-2018-3801\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you endorse that the conventional discourse on human rights has failed to include women\u2019s rights? Explain in the context of feminist theories."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">@) universalism only apparent \u2192 Okin: rights of \u201cman and male household heads\u201d \u2192 endorse the failure R1 the neutral human subject was male \u2192 de Beauvoir: \u201cbecomes a woman\u201d \u2192 male bias built into rights<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Okin: framework defends male household heads \u2192 de Beauvoir: gender constructed, male experience as standard \u2192 public\/private dichotomy, UDHR Art. 12 shields the home \u2192 women\u2019s harms fall outside the state \u2192 Charlesworth: all three generations built on male life \u2192 evidence: reproductive rights scant, Amnesty on pregnancy deaths<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">failure is a defect to fix, not fatal to rights \u2192 CEDAW (1979) + Beijing (1995) reframe gender as a human-rights issue \u2192 Walby: transform the framework itself<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 discourse failed by universalising a male subject + privatising women\u2019s suffering \u2192 feminism exposes and repairs R1 not abandonment but a transformed, gender-sensitive conception of rights (Walby) \u2192 the exclusion is corrigible<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[43],"pyq_marks":[31],"pyq_topic":[80],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1505","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-43","pyq_marks-20-marks","pyq_topic-contemporary-global-concerns","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1505\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}