Violências privadas como se fossem direitos públicos. Perspectivas antropológicas

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between police officers and women who claim the status of victims of domestic violence in Portugal. The text proposes a reading of Law and rights in light of theories of human intersubjectivity. This line of interpretation highlights the social construction of a grammar of disempowerment and the re-privatization of pain, with significant variation between distinct encounters.