Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

Merry, Sally Engle

ISBN 10: 0226520749 / ISBN 13: 9780226520742

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226520749
• ISBN 13: 9780226520742
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice.

As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist organizations in several countries, Sally Engle Merry offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. Providing legal and anthropological perspectives, Merry contends that human rights law must be framed in local terms to be accepted and effective in altering existing social hierarchies. Gender violence in particular, she argues, is rooted in deep cultural and religious beliefs, so change is often vehemently resisted by the communities perpetrating the acts of aggression.

A much-needed exploration of how local cultures appropriate and enact international human rights law, this book will be of enormous value to students of gender studies and anthropology alike.

About the Author

Sally Engle Merry (1944-2020) was the Silver Professor in the Department of Anthropology at New York University and the faculty codirector of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law. She is the author of five books, including Human Rights and Gender Violence, also published by the University of Chicago Press.