Human rights and gender violence translating international law into local justice
Sally Engle Merry.
- Chicago, Ill. Bristol University of Chicago Press University Presses Marketing distributor 2005.
- ix, 269 p. 23 cm.
- The Chicago series in law and society .
- The 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.