Jeanne-Pauline situated spousal abuse as the most heinous of all crimes. If a woman was abused in her own home, then she must immediately consider the domestic sphere a war zone, wherein all domestic instruments were seen as weapons. A woman had a right to bludgeon her husband to death with a rolling pin. She had a right to slit his throat with a steak knife. Jeanne-Pauline did not see these actions as self-defense but as terrorist acts that created fear in men throughout the city. And caused other women to feel more free in their houses.
