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This concise introduction defines gender violence in social and cultural terms. Through personal accounts and ethnographic case studies, Sally Engle Merry provides a vivid portrait of many forms of violence in gendered relationships. Domestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison and police violence, murder, female genital cutting, female infanticide, "honor" killings, and trafficking are all analyzed extensively. Merry examin...

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Despite the best efforts of the United Nations and advances in human rights law, violence against women across the globe is still perpetuated in the gap between legal principle and local practices. "Human Rights and Gender Violence "investigates the tensions between global law and local justice from an insider's perspective. As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist organizations in several cou...

Ordinary Americans often bring family and neighborhood problems to court, seeking justice or revenge. The litigants in these local squabbles encounter law at its boundaries in the corridors of busy city courthouses, in the offices of court clerks, and in the church parlors used by mediation programs. "Getting Justice and Getting Even" concerns the legal consciousness of working class Americans and their experiences with court and mediation. Fo...

Can popular justice ever be a real alternative to the violence and coercion of state law?

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Explores the proliferation of indicators and the resulting transformations in entanglements between social science, markets and politics in public life.

In an age when almost anything can be somehow quantified and then measured, Sally Engle Merry s latest book shows how quantification can hide or even distort as much as it reveals. She is particularly interested in the rise of quantitative indicators as a means of global governance. This is the realm of soft law, where compliance depends on monitoring behavior against a set of standards. Merry focuses on three global indicators: human rights i...

Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social processes constituting quantitative knowledge or its effects on public ordering practices. This book shows how technologies of quantification change our modes of knowing in subtle and often unrecognized ways.