Author: Carline Anna
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0144-932X
Source: Liverpool Law Review, Vol.26, Iss.1, 2005-01, pp. : 13-44
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Abstract
Since the early 1990s there has been a plethora of academic commentary on the criminal law’s treatment of women who kill their abusive partners. More recently, the debate has been re-opened due to the Law Commission’s proposals on Partial Defences to Murder. This article aims to critically analyse the approach adopted by the academic commentary and to place in within a feminist theory framework. In addition the article argues that the work of queer theorist Judith Butler enables the analysis of the law’s treatment to be developed further.
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