Human rights and gender violence translating international law into local justice Sally Engle Merry

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chicago series in law and societyPublication details: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2006Description: ix, 269 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 0226520749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.88082 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1237 .M47 2006
Contents:
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
Item type: Book
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) 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