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Addressing the trajectory of debates about reform of the provocation defence across different jurisdictions sex culpability and the defence of provocation considers the construction and representation of subjectivity and sexual difference in legal narrations of intimate partner homicide. Addressing the trajectory of debates about reform of the provocation defence across different jurisdictions sex culpability and the defence of provocation considers the construction and representation of subjectivity and sexual difference in legal narrations of intimate partner homicide. Request pdf sex culpability and the defence of provocation the partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law it has now been abolished in a . And pursuing an approach that is informed by socio legal studies literary theory and feminist theories of the body sex culpability and the defence of provocation considers how this narrative is constructed via a range of discursive practices that position woman as a threat to masculine norms of propriety and autonomy. Sex culpability and the defence of provocation tyson danielle 2013 sex culpability and the defence of provocation routledge cavendish london eng attached files name description mimetype size downloads discourses of law total pages 223 publisher routledge cavendish