%0 Journal Article
%T Legal and Moral Justification for Homicide in Susan Glaspell¡¯s ¡°A Jury of Her Peers¡±
%A Marilyn R. Tayler
%J Law, Culture and the Humanities
%@ 1743-9752
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1743872115575205
%X This article examines the legal, moral and social injustices resulting from women not having the right to serve as jurors, in the context of Susan Glaspell¡¯s ¡°A Jury of Her Peers.¡± I demonstrate how Glaspell provides a fictional window into moral justice based upon jury nullification, exercised by disempowered women, and I establish how Glaspell¡¯s narrative helped to lay the foundation for legal recognition of women¡¯s rights to serve as jurors, and acceptance of Battered Woman¡¯s Syndrome as a defense. I conclude that Glaspell was an agent for change, whose work contributed to equal justice for women under law
%K Jury nullification
%K domestic abuse
%K battered woman
%K Battered Woman¡¯s Syndrome
%K jury deliberations
%K law and justice
%K Susan Glaspell
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1743872115575205