Subject(s): Women -- Justice -- Legal reform -- Contextualizing domestic homicides : Female murders and English criminal justice system- brief history, women as perpetrators of homicide, gendered nature of homicide -- Methodology and overview of cases : Limitations of previous research on women who kill -- Homicide, intention and responsibility : Motives and homicide -- Gender, murder and madness : Contextualizing gender and psychiatry, and legal system -- Access to provocation and self defense : doctrine of provocation in this homicide study, law of self defence, case of R.v Joan -- Legal reform : law reform strategies, law reform and feminist debate -- Negotiating gender difference in criminal justice system -- women & law