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1 online resource (308 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the contributors; Abbreviations; 1 The trial of Harriet Vooght: continuity and change in the history of infanticide; 2 Accusations of infanticide on the eve of the French Wars of Religion; 3 Infanticide in early modern England: the Court of Great Sessions at Chester, 1650-1800; 4 'The unfortunate maid exemplified': Elizabeth Canning and representations of infanticide in eighteenth-century England |
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5 Bodies of evidence, states of mind: infanticide, emotion and sensibility in eighteenth-century England6 Infanticide and the erotic plot: a feminist reading of eighteenth-century crime; 7 Infanticide, slavery and the politics of reproduction at Cape Colony, South Africa, in the 1820s; 8 The murder of Thomas Sandles: meanings of a mid-nineteenth-century infanticide; 9 Getting away with murder? Puerperal insanity, infanticide and the defence plea; 10 Images and impulses: representations of puerperal insanity and infanticide in late Victorian England |
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11 The boundaries of Her Majesty's Pleasure: discharging child-murderers from Broadmoor and Perth Criminal Lunatic Department, c.1860-192012 Legislating for human nature: legal responses to infanticide, 1860-1938; 13 'Nothing in between': modern cases of infanticide; Index |
| Summary |
The history of infanticide from the 16th through to the late 20th century is the subject of this volume. Collectively, the contributions explore how the concealment of pregnancy, birth and death, particularly by unmarried women, became a central preoccupation of witnesses, doctors, courts and legislatures concerned with suspicious infant deaths. While the emphasis is upon Britain, original and stimulating accounts of infanticide accusations and trials in France, Germany, and South Africa provide compelling comparative analyses. Presenting a series of case studies, successive chapters expose striking continuities, across both time and space, in the social history of infanticide. Clearly written, focusing on a range of original cases and documents, and addressing critical historiographical questions, Infanticide will be invaluable to historians and students researching the social history of medicine, law, crime, and gender. In addition, it will appeal to lawyers, doctors, and others interested in understanding the historical roots of modern debates about infanticide |
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Infanticide -- Great Britain -- History
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Children -- Crimes against -- Great Britain -- History
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Infanticide -- History
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Children -- Crimes against.
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Infanticide.
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Children -- Crimes against
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Infanticide
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Great Britain
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351927659 |
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1351927655 |
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