TY  - SER
AU  - Tolmie, Julia
TI  - Pacific-Asian immigrant refugee women who kill their batterers: telling stories that illustrate the significance of specifity
U1  - 345.04 
PY  - 1977///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Sydney Law Review
KW  - FVC
KW  - ABUSED WOMEN
KW  - ASIAN PEOPLES
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - GENDER
KW  - ETHNICITY
KW  - HOMICIDE
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - MIGRANTS
KW  - PACIFIC PEOPLES
KW  - REFUGEES
KW  - SELF DEFENCE
KW  - VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - AUSTRALIA
N1  - Sydney Law Review 19(4) December 1997 : 472-513; at
N2  - In this Australian based study, Julia Tolmie has analysed two cases involving Pacific-Asian women who killed their abusive husbands and argued self-defence in response to a charge of murder or attempted murder. She has highlighted examples of the manner in which race and gender might have converged in each case, both to make self-defence a viable option for the accused on the facts, and yet to impede her presentation of that defence in court. In other words, race and gender in each case converged to make the accuseds circumstances more frightening and to narrow her options for dealing with that danger by peaceful means. Because the court in each case failed to examine the effect that this convergence had on the accuseds circumstances, and her presentation of her defence at trial, it failed to realistically assess her self-defence claim.  From author's conclusion
UR  - http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SydLRev/1997/25.html
ER  -