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

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HQ1237 M573 2006

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ISBN
0226520749 (pbk.)
Call Number
HQ1237 M573 2006
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Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice / Sally Engle Merry
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Physical
ix, 269 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents Note
Introduction: Culture and transnationalism
--Creatinghuman rights
--Gender violence and the CEDAW process
--Disjunctures between global law and local justice
--Legaltransplants and cultural translation : making human rightsin the vernacular
--Localizing human rights and rights consciousness
--Conclusions.
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