Legal and Moral Justification for Homicide in Susan Glaspell’s 'A Jury of Her Peers'

Autor:	Marilyn R. Tayler
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Cultural Studies media_common.quotation_subject Foundation (evidence) Jury nullification Context (language use) Criminology Economic Justice Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Jury Homicide Law Domestic violence Narrative Sociology media_common
Zdroj:	Law, Culture and the Humanities. 15:364-381
ISSN:	1743-9752 1743-8721
Popis:	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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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