Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice /
Merry, Sally Engle,1944-
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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
Women
Women
Human rights.
Culture and law.
Culture conflict.