Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice /
Merry, Sally Engle
Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice / Sally Engle Merry. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - ix, 269 p. - Chicago series in law and society .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Culture and transnationalism -- Creating human rights -- Gender violence and the CEDAW process -- Disjunctures between global law and local justice -- Legal transplants and cultural translation : making human rights in the vernacular -- Localizing human rights and rights consciousness -- Conclusions.
9780226520742
2005011951
Women--Violence against.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Human rights.
Culture and law.
Culture conflict.
HQ1237.M47 2006
Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice / Sally Engle Merry. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - ix, 269 p. - Chicago series in law and society .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Culture and transnationalism -- Creating human rights -- Gender violence and the CEDAW process -- Disjunctures between global law and local justice -- Legal transplants and cultural translation : making human rights in the vernacular -- Localizing human rights and rights consciousness -- Conclusions.
9780226520742
2005011951
Women--Violence against.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Human rights.
Culture and law.
Culture conflict.
HQ1237.M47 2006