Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice /

by Merry, Sally Engle Series: Chicago series in law and society Published by : University of Chicago Press, (Chicago :) Physical details: ix, 269 p. ISBN:9780226520742. Year: 2006 Item type: Book

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.

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