Contesting Femicide

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<P>Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart¿s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, <I>Feminism and the Power of Law</I> (Routledge 1989). Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law reforms as construing it as a site on which to contest gender and more particularly, gendered constructions of women¿s experiences. Over the last 30 to 40 years, feminist law scholars and activists have launched scathing trans-jurisdictional critiques of the operation of provocation defences in hundreds of femicide cases. The evidence unearthed by feminist scholars that these defences operate in profoundly sexed ways is unequivocal. Accordingly, femicide cases have become critically important sites for feminist engagement and intervention across numerous jurisdictions. Exploring an area of criminal law that was not one of Smart¿s own focal concerns, this book both honours and extends S