This research focuses on the role of sexual politics and the construction of gender roles as they related to the killing of females by intimate male partners. The sample is comprised of ten men incarcerated within Atlantic Canadian correctional institutions. Findings supported data from earlier studies regarding patriarchal ideologies and threats to the male ego. While prior research on patriarchal factors suggest male views of sexual proprietariness as being lethal, these findings indicate that intimate femicide is more central to how men construct, perform and identify with values of hegemonic heterosexual masculinity.
Michelle Ada Coleman (Sun,) studied this question.