women's rights as human rights

i am reading a brief philosophy article titled "are women human? feminist reflections on 'women's rights as human rights.'" i have read it before. what i find baffling about the article is in fact something it takes for granted, that there is a serious split between the "liberal" and "cultural" feminists. despite having read the article several times, and generally understanding its view point and direction, i keep coming back to this point of splintering in feminism. the tiny bit of research i have done says that this split in american feminism is identified in about 1985.....

a quote: "American Feminism has been dominated by two interrelated but often conflicting propositions: that women should be treated as the equals of men, and that feminine qualities deserve to be revalued and their power in society acknowledged."

now granted, as a feminist male, i may not be fully up to date, but i see a lot more interrelation than conflict there. perhaps i am too simple minded.

one key issue in the possibility of seeing women's rights as human rights is the simple fact that rights and laws and systems of justice tend to be male dominated and based on a series of male ideals. they are, for example, seen as a system of "independent rationally self interested individuals" rather than, for example, dependent or social creatures. this is amazing to me.

while cultural feminists see this as reason to not seek to include women's rights as human rights, or even to question if women are "human" by this overtly male definition, i see this as all the more reason to seek inclusion. first, to assert that humans are "independent rationally self interested individuals" is nearly senseless. certainly this is a view that is popular in america, but the lone cowboy spirit in the USA in more an aberration to the rest of the world than a norm, isn't it? isn't this mad-cowboy disease something that we should be trying to change rather than just stepping away and attempting to ignore?

as the rest of the world slowly comes around to the nonsense of the "independent rationally self interested individuals" idea, isn't this something that feminists should be leaping at? a chance to fill the void and make some corrections? or is that just me being male?

i know i for one would like to see a more balanced world. how about we try finding some feminine systems of rights and laws? or better yet, can't we at least try a system that could steer a path between them both?

i don't know, maybe you can't teach an old male philosopher new tricks, but i am willing to try. is someone willing to teach?