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The Politics of Gender Violence: Law Reform in Local and Global Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Mindie Lazarus-Black  and
Sally Engle Merry
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The end of the millennium has witnessed an enormous expansion in discourses, intervention practices, and social movements opposing violence against women. Not only does this development affect familial and gender inequalities, but it also reshapes the relationships among communities, states, and the global order. This symposium examines these changing relationships by considering how new discourses, laws, and practices about gender violence between intimates develop through local, national, and global processes. It explores local situations from a global perspective and global processes from a local perspective. Thus, it examines the local-global interface in the creation and implementation of social reforms concerning violence against women. We use the case of violence against women because it offers an excellent vantage point for analyzing the creation of an emerging global system of law based in human rights and assessing its impact on local and national laws and practices. It also offers a site to examine how local actors reformulate the content and meaning of global reform discourses. The articles track actors from local to international settings and back again as they negotiate the application of law to violence against women.

Type
Symposium on Violence Between Intimates, Globalization, and the State
Information
Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , Fall 2003 , pp. 931 - 939
Copyright
Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2003 

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