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Sally Engle Merry

Human Rights and Gender Violence

Translating International Law into Local Justice

264 pages,  6 x 9  © 2006
Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society

Cloth $59.00

ISBN: 9780226520735   Published December 2005

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226520742   Published December 2005

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Culture and Transnationalism
2. Creating Human Rights
3. Gender Violence and the CEDAW Process
4. Disjunctures between Global Law and Local Justice
5. Legal Transplants and Cultural Translation: Making Human Rights in the Vernacular
6. Localizing Human Rights and Rights Consciousness
7. Conclusions
Notes
References
Index
Subjects



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