Introduction : constructs by which we live
Bodily integrity and its exclusions
Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice
Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children
Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero
J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace : the rights of desire and the embodied lives of animals
Arundhati Roy's "return to the things themselves" : phenomenology and the challenge of justice
Coda : small places, close to home.