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Killing infants : studies in the world practice of infanticide
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- Creator
- edited by Brigitte H. Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- vii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0773457615, 9780773457614
- OCLC
- ocm65407828
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [838]-413) and index.
- Ch. 1. Introduction : towards an understanding of the infanticide scholarship / Brigitte H. Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves -- Pt. I. Race, colonialism and infanticide -- Ch. 2. "She made to crush the child's fragile skull" : disease, infanticide, and enslaved women in 18[superscript th]-century Saint-Domingue / Karol K. Weaver -- Ch. 3. Infanticide and infant abandonment in the new South / Elna C. Green -- Ch. 4. Infanticide, savagery and civilization : the Australian experience / Shurlee Swain -- Pt. II. European lawmakers and infanticide -- Ch. 5. "... in a frenzy while raving mad" : physicians and parliamentarians define infanticide in Victorian England / Donna Cooper Graves -- Ch. 6. Unwilling mothers and unwanted babies : infanticide and medico-legal responsibility in 20[superscript th] century Canadian legal discourse / Kirsten Johnson Kramar -- Ch. 7. Making sense of the murdering mother : Soviet criminologist and infanticide in revolutionary Russia / Sharon Kowalsky -- Pt. III. Case studies of infanticide -- Ch. 8. Bearing the burden of bastardy : infanticide, race and motherhood in Brazilian slave society / Jane-Marie Collins -- Ch. 9. "The demon superstition" : abominable twins and mission culture in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Onitsha, Nigeria / Misty L. Bastian -- Ch. 10. "What she want to go and do that for?" : examining infanticide in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Denise Shaw -- Ch. 11. "The death seemed rather unusual to me" : infanticide investigations into the deaths of legitimate children in English-speaking Victorian Canada / Janet McShane Galley -- Pt. IV. Macroanalysis of infanticide -- Ch. 12. The relative economic valuation of female and male offspring in nineteenth-century France / Brigitte Bechtold -- Ch. 13. Sex-selective infanticide and the "missing females" in India and China / Andrea M. den Boer and Valerie M. Hudson
Subjects
- Infanticide -- History.
- Infanticide -- history.
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- Social Conditions -- history.
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- Maternal Behavior -- psychology.
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- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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