Human Rights and Gender Violence (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
264
Utgivningsdatum
2005-12-15
Förlag
The University of Chicago Press
Dimensioner
230 x 150 x 15 mm
Vikt
340 g
ISBN
9780226520742

Human Rights and Gender Violence

Translating International Law into Local Justice

av Sally Engle Merry
Häftad,  Engelska, 2005-12-15
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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 thus 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.
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Sally Engle Merry is professor of anthropology and the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas at Wellesley College. She is the author of several books, including Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Process of Law and Getting Justice and Getting Even, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

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