ABSTRACT
Rights proliferate, penetrate to new domains, and acquire new meanings. New groups arise that are considered to be entitled to different kinds of rights (e.g., women, children, disabled, animals). At the same time, new types of rights emerge (e.g., cultural rights, ecological rights) and new domains of social life are formulated as appropriate for regulation via rights granted by the state (e.g., the domestic sphere, the environment) (see Falk 1994; Meyer et al. 1987; Steenbergen 1994; Turner 1994).
