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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020.

Series:

Chicago series in law and society.

Chicago series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Violence against.

Women.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Human rights.

Culture and law.

Culture conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist organizations in several countries, Sally Engle Merry offers an insider's perspective on how human

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and index.

ISBN:

9786612537516

9781282537514

1282537512

9780226520759

0226520757

OCLC:

593274189