Wales, 12
Walesa, Lech, 3
War Measures Act, 47
wars, 9, 11, 140.
welfare, 7–8, 30, 93, 100, 119
welfare state, 10, 96, 97, 102
Western culture, 45, 90
Westphalia, peace of, 49
women, 5, 22, 89, 90, 98
abuse by, 101–2
abuse of, 22, 95
and affirmation action, 11, 74, 88
and constitutional reform, 7, 116, 117
vs. men, 18, 19, 25
women’s rights, 1, 3, 5, 20, 21, 22, 45, 86, 113, 116
in Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 7, 81
in religious groups, 18, 72
Woolf, Virginia, 138
work, 16, 106, 111
working families, 91, 105, 110
working people, 5, 16, 20, 25
World War II, 48–49, 98
Yeats, William Butler, 128
Yugoslavia, 10, 11, 50, 133
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian-born writer, historian, and politician. His nonfiction books include The Russian Album, Blood and Belonging, The Warrior’s Honour, Isaiah Berlin: A Life, The Needs of Strangers, The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, and True Patriot Love. His fiction includes Scar Tissue and Charlie Johnson in the Flames. His work has been translated into twelve languages and has been awarded numerous prizes and awards. He is the recipient of seven honorary degrees. Between 2000 and 2005, he was Professor of Human Rights and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Since January 2006, he has been the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore in Toronto, re-elected in 2008, and currently serves as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
THE MASSEY LECTURES SERIES
The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by CBC Radio, House of Anansi Press, and Massey College in the University of Toronto. The series was created in honour of the Right Honourable Vincent Massey, former governor general of Canada, and was inaugurated in 1961 to provide a forum on radio where major contemporary thinkers could address important issues of our time.
This book comprises the 2000 Massey Lectures, “The Rights Revolution,” broadcast in November 2000 as part of CBC Radio’s Ideas series. The producer of the series was Philip Coulter; the executive producer was Richard Handler.
THE CBC MASSEY LECTURES SERIES
The Wayfinders
Wade Davis
ISBN 978-0-88784-842-1
eISBN 978-0-88784-969-5
Payback
Margaret Atwood
ISBN 978-0-88784-810-0
eISBN 978-0-88784-872-8
More Lost Massey Lectures
Bernie Lucht, ed.
ISBN 978-0-88784-801-8
The City of Words
Alberto Manguel
ISBN 978-0-88784-763-9
eISBN 978-0-88784-849-0
The Lost Massey Lectures
Bernie Lucht, ed.
ISBN 978-0-88784-217-7
eISBN 978-0-88784-864-3
The Ethical Imagination
Margaret Somerville
ISBN 978-0-88784-747-9
eISBN 978-0-88784-883-4
Race Against Time
Stephen Lewis
ISBN 978-0-88784-753-0
eISBN 978-0-88784-875-9
A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright
ISBN 978-0-88784-706-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-843-8
The Truth About Stories
Thomas King
ISBN 978-0-88784-696-0
eISBN 978-0-88784-895-7
Beyond Fate
Margaret Visser
ISBN 978-0-88784-679-3
eISBN 978-0-88784-846-9
The Cult of Efficiency
Janice Gross Stein
ISBN 978-0-88784-678-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-880-3
The Rights Revolution
Michael Ignatieff
ISBN 978-0-88784-762-2
eISBN 978-0-88784-892-6
The Triumph of Narrative
Robert Fulford
ISBN 978-0-88784-645-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-894-0
Becoming Human
Jean Vanier
ISBN 978-0-88784-809-4
eISBN 978-0-88784-845-2
The Elsewhere Community
Hugh Kenner
ISBN 978-0-88784-607-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-882-7
The Unconscious Civilization
John Ralston Saul
ISBN 978-0-88784-731-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-896-4
On the Eve of the Millennium
Conor Cruise O'Brien
ISBN 978-0-88784-559-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-870-4
Democracy on Trial
Jean Bethke Elshtain
ISBN 978-0-88784-545-1
eISBN 978-0-88784-854-4
Twenty-First Century Capitalism
Robert Heilbroner
ISBN 978-0-88784-534-5
eISBN 978-0-88784-897-1
The Malaise of Modernity
Charles Taylor
ISBN 978-0-88784-520-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-886-5
Biology as Ideology
R. C. Lewontin
ISBN 978-0-88784-518-5
eISBN 978-0-88784-847-6
The Real World of Technology
Ursula Franklin
ISBN 978-0-88784-636-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-891-9
Necessary Illusions
Noam Chomsky
ISBN 978-0-88784-574-1
eISBN 978-0-88784-868-1
Gregory Baum
ISBN 978-0-88784-532-1
eISBN 978-0-88784-851-3
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Doris Lessing
ISBN 978-0-88784-521-5
eISBN 978-0-88784-874-2
Latin America
Carlos Fuentes
ISBN 978-0-88784-665-6
eISBN 978-0-88784-862-9
Nostalgia for the Absolute
George Steiner
ISBN 978-0-88784-594-9
eISBN 978-0-88784-869-8
Designing Freedom
Stafford Beer
ISBN 978-0-88784-547-5
eISBN 978-0-88784-855-1
The Politics of the Family
R. D. Laing
ISBN 978-0-88784-546-8
eISBN 978-0-88784-889-6
The Real World of Democracy
C. B. Macpherson
ISBN 978-0-88784-530-7
eISBN 978-0-88784-890-2
The Educated Imagination
Northrop Frye
ISBN 978-0-88784-598-7
eISBN 978-0-88784-881-0
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