Killing infants : studies in the worldwide practice of infanticide
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Killing infants : studies in the worldwide practice of infanticide
Edwin Mellen Press, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-413) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Contains a collection of twelve essays about the practice of infanticide in different parts of the world. This book includes a multidisciplinary bibliography of the infanticide literature.
目次
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Towards an Understanding of the Infanticide Scholarship - Brigitte H. Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves
- Part I: Race, Colonialism and Infanticide
- 2. "She Made to Crush the Child's Fragile Skull": Disease, Infanticide, and Enslaved Women in 18th Century Saint-Domingue - Karol K. Weaver
- 3. Infanticide and Infant Abandonment in the New South - Elna C. Green
- 4. Infanticide, Savagery and Civilization: The Australian Experience - Shurlee Swain
- Part II: European Lawmakers and Infanticide
- 5. "... in a frenzy while raving mad": Physicians and Parliamentarians Define Infanticide in Victorian England - Donna Cooper Graves
- 6. Unwilling Mothers and Unwanted Babies: Infanticide and Medico-Legal Responsibility in 20th Century Canadian Legal Discourse - Kirsten Johnson Kramar
- 7. Making Sense of the Murdering Mother: Soviet Criminologists and Infanticide in Revolutionary Russia - Sharon Kowalsky
- Part III: Case Studies of Infanticide
- 8. Bearing the Burden of Bastardy: Infanticide, Race and Motherhood in Brazilian Slave Society - Jane-Marie Collins
- 9. "The Demon Superstition": Abominable Twins and Mission Culture in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Onitsha, Nigeria - Misty L. Bastian
- 10. "What she want to go and do that for?" Examining Infanticide in Toni Morrison's Beloved - Denise Shaw
- 11. "The death seemed rather unusual to me": Infanticide Investigations into the Deaths of Legitimate Children in English-Speaking Victorian Canada - Janet McShane Galley
- Part IV: Macroanalysis of Infanticide
- 12. The Relative Economic Valuation of Female and Male Offspring in Nineteenth-Century France - Brigitte Bechtold
- 13. Sex-Selective Infanticide and the "Missing Females" in India and China - Andrea M. den Boer and Valerie M. Hudson
- Primary Sources, Infanticide Bibliography
- Index.
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