TY  - SER
AU  - Seuffert, Nan
TI  - Domestic violence, discourses of romantic love, and complex personhood in the law
SN  - 185941723X
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London
PB  - Cavendish
KW  - FVC
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - GENDER
KW  - HOMICIDE
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - MEN
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
N1  - In M. Thornton (Ed.) Romancing the tomes : popular culture, law and feminism : 87-111; xxk
N2  - This chapter examines prevailing legal discourses in the context of women who have killed men after having been subjected to domestic violence for long periods of time. It looks at selected dominant discourses of romantic love and argues that the courtroom statements by abused women that they love or loved their abusers are constrained within the common law's narrow recognition of relationships as functions of property. The prevailing themes of ownership and romantic love, constructed through popular culture and other discourses, are said to inform common law courts and serve to facilitate abusive relationships
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10289/549 
ER  -