Infanticide (eBook, PDF)

Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000
Redaktion: Jackson, Mark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351927659
• Artikelnr.: 54535488

Autorenporträt

Mark Jackson

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The trial of Harriet Vooght: continuity and change in the history of infanticide
Mark Jackson; Accusations of infanticide on the eve of the French Wars of Religion
Luc Racaut; Infanticide in early modern England: the Court of Great Sessions at Chester
1650-1800
J.R. Dickinson and J.A. Sharpe; `The unfortunate maid exemplified': Elizabeth Canning and representations of infanticide in 18th-century England
Amy L. Masciola; Bodies of evidence
states of mind: infanticide
emotion
and sensibility in 18th-century England
Dana Rabin; Infanticide and the erotic plot: a feminist reading of 18th-century crime
Johanna Geyer-Kordesch; Infanticide
slavery
and the politics of reproduction at Cape Colony
South Africa
in the 1820s
Patricia van der Spuy; The murder of Thomas Sandles: meanings of a mid-19th-century infanticide
Margaret L. Arnot; Getting away with murder? Puerperal insanity
infanticide and the defence plea
Hilary Marland; Images and impulses: representations of puerperal insanity and infanticide in late Victorian England
Cath Quinn; The boundaries of Her Majesty's Pleasure: discharging child murderers from Broadmoor and Perth Criminal Lunatic Department
c.1860-1920
Jonathan Andrews; Legislating for human nature: legal responses to infanticide
1860-1938
Tony Ward; "Nothing in between": modern cases of infanticide
Julie Wheelwright; Index.