@article{ref1,
title="The "normal" woman who kills: representations of women's intimate partner homicide",
journal="Feminist criminology",
year="2019",
author="Pelvin, Holly",
volume="14",
number="3",
pages="349-370",
abstract="Research suggests that the representation of women's lethal violence relies on stock narratives that deny women's femininity or neutralize their culpability. I test those claims by studying media coverage of female-perpetrated intimate partner homicides in Toronto, Canada, from 1975 to 1999. I find that the vast majority of these homicides received little or no media coverage, which I attribute to the circumstances surrounding &quot;normal&quot; killings and the characteristics of the offenders and victims involved in them. &quot;Normal&quot; homicides do not necessarily disrupt or challenge our understanding of femininity or violence, making them less newsworthy or in need of explanation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1557-0851",
doi="10.1177/1557085117744876",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085117744876"
}