Assignment 09
In Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women’s Human Rights to Protection from Violence by Sally Engle Marry, she discusses many important points that influenced women’s laws, specially laws of victims who go through domestic violence and other type of abuse situation by their intimate or family member. Marry argues about how women can be protected against intimate partner’s violence and what can be done to have positive results. With the help of battered women’s movement and the laws women violence can have a lower rate. The rights defined self is a critical issue for the battered women’s movement, which means the right to talk to encourage abuse women to look for help from the law. The battered women’s movement has always focused on a criminal justice component to its activism. In other words, it inspired victims to see violation as a crime to make them reach for the legal system for help. Marry and her assistant went through a long process to support their argument, she interviewed thirty women and twenty-one men and asked them about their experiences with the legal system and most importantly their reactions to the experiences. Everyone had a different opinion and reaction, which helped Marry and her assistant make progress on her project. From my understanding the subjectivities are produced through encounters with the legal system because is a better way to protect victims from domestic violence or any other type of abuse by their intimate partner.For example, women who were victims of domestic violence by their intimate partner were afraid of pressing charges or calling the police for help. Women in this situation would usually make a step back, which eventually give more power to man. One of the many reasons why those women were afraid was because all man was dominant and had power over women. With time women find a way to fit into the laws of being protected and acknowledgeable. The law plays a huge part in the redefinition of subjectivity. The importance is that women encounter conditional help. This is good because by women reporting how they were being threat it by their partners the law would take in mind women’s suffering. Another reason why making domestic violence records was significant at that time was because it gave women an identity as a wife, human being, women who is protecting themselves and children. In conclusion, the subjectivity that Merry tries to break down to make other understand how it works has to do with gender, status, religion, and other factors. Another factor that plays alone with her argument is the rights-defined.
