TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merry,Sally Engle
TI  - Human rights and gender violence: translating international law into local justice
T2  - The Chicago series in law and society
SN  - 0226520730 (hbk.)
AV  - HQ 1237 .M47 2006
U1  - 362.88082 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago, Ill., Bristol
PB  - University of Chicago Press, University Presses Marketing distributor
KW  - Culture conflict
KW  - Local
KW  - Culture and law
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Women
KW  - Violence against
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
N1  - 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
ER  -