TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women's Human Rights to Protection from Violence
JO  - Human rights quarterly
A1  - Merry, Sally Engle
SP  - 343
EP  - 381
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
N2  - How does a person come to understand his or her problems in terms of rights? This is a critical problem for the battered women's movement as well as for other human rights movements that rely on rights awareness to encourage victims to seek help from the law. The adoption of a rights consciousness requires experiences with the legal system that confirm that subjectivity. Rights-defined selves emerge from supportive encounters with police, prosecutors, judges, and probation officers. This empirical study shows how victims of violence against women come to take on rights consciousness.<p /> 
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SN  - 0275-0392
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2003.0020
ID  - ref1
ER  -