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Alice Edwards,Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, xxxiii + 375pp., ISBN 978-0-521-76713-2 (hb), £65.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2012

Alexandra Timmer
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 570 - 573
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Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2012

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1 See also in this journal Edwards, A., ‘The “Feminizing” of Torture under International Human Rights Law’, (2006) 19 LJIL 349CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Miller, A., ‘Sexuality, Violence against Women, and Human Rights: Women Make Demands and Ladies Get Protection’, (2004) 7 Health and Human Rights 16, at 19CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 For an incisive account of this dilemma, see the seminal work by Carol Smart (who doubts whether law can be transformative at all); C. Smart, Feminism and the Power of Law (1989).