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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Series:	Chicago series in law and society.
Subjects:	Women > Violence against. Women > Legal status, laws, etc. Human rights. Culture and law. Culture conflict.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of 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.