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fl-77	Bradley, Jeremy C	Lisa Downing, The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer	2013	6	.docx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document	3371	140	57	Part and parcel of her methodology, Downing reflects on Foucault’s argument that a murder defendant’s behaviour is made to retrospectively correspond with his identity as a criminal (8). The use of the masculine pronoun here is important, for as many feminist legal scholars point out, liberal conceptions of law have painted the picture of the ‘rational’ person as an autonomous, rugged man ‘geared toward maximizing his self-interest effectively, efficiently, and expediently’.[footnoteRef:4] This is evident in legal standards such as the ‘reasonable man’ which position rationality akin to masculinity; and as Downing shows, women who murder are often treated particularly harshly or as though they were not really female at all (102).	cache/fl-77.docx	txt/fl-77.txt