Assertiveness in the Context of Human Rights, Ethics, and Classical Virtues

Susana Castaños-Cervantes is a professor at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico.Connie Atristain-Suárez is a professor and researcher at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico

• Chapter 1. “I’m OK, You’re OK” Philosophy: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Equity, Justice, and Peace Through Assertiveness—An Introduction.- Part I Assertiveness as a Human Right and Virtue.- Chapter 2. Assertiveness and Human Rights Origins, Exercise, Education and Duties: How Assertiveness Can Help Us Better Understand Human Rights.- Chapter 3. The Right to an Assertive Life: Assertiveness as a Human Right.- Chapter 4. Tracing Classical Roots of Assertiveness: The Aristotelian Virtue.- Part II Assertiveness from a Social Perspective.- Chapter 5. The Importance of Assertiveness in Social Anthropology.- Chapter 6. Assertiveness: A View from the Perspective of Reflexivity.- Chapter 7. Assertive Rights and Intervention in Social Work.- Part III Assertiveness for Building a Culture of Virtue, Peace, and Equity.- Chapter 8. Ethics, Decision-Making, and Assertive Communication.- Chapter 9. Assertiveness, Conflict, and Peacemaking.- Chapter 10. Assertive Leadership for the Protection of Human Rights: Inclusion and Gender Perspective in the Autonomous University of Nuevo León.- Part IV Exercising the Right to be Assertive.- Chapter 11. Assertiveness as a Human Right: Its Configuration fromthe Dignity of the Person in Situations of Vulnerability.- Chapter 12. Sexual Assertiveness in Mexican Homeless Female Youth: A Qualitative Approach.- Chapter 13. Assertiveness: A Tool for Social Change and Shared Value.- Chapter 14. Assertiveness in the Context of Human Rights, Ethics, and Classical Virtues: Final Reflections.