Identity, strategy, and feminist politics: Clemency for battered women who kill

Social Problems

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-93

  Gagné, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

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EID: 0039924585     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.1996.43.1.03x0337y     Document Type: Article

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