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Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice
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Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice / Sally Engle Merry.
ISBN
0226520730 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226520749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Physical Description
ix, 269 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 25, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and index.
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.
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