%0 Journal Article
%T The ¡°Normal¡± Woman Who Kills: Representations of Women¡¯s Intimate Partner Homicide
%A Holly Pelvin
%J Feminist Criminology
%@ 1557-086X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1557085117744876
%X 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 ¡°normal¡± killings and the characteristics of the offenders and victims involved in them. ¡°Normal¡± homicides do not necessarily disrupt or challenge our understanding of femininity or violence, making them less newsworthy or in need of explanation
%K female killers
%K media representations
%K intimate partner homicide
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1557085117744876