Clara S Lewis

American Infanticide

Sexism, Science, and the Politics of Sympathy

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Produktbeschreibung

Emile Weaver seemed like the perfect college student—a studious, athletic, and popular sorority sister. So why did she kill her newborn baby? American Infanticide answers this question by situating Emile’s tragic crime in a long intellectual and social history that reveals why our legal responses to infanticide are so deeply misguided.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978833821
• ISBN-10: 1978833822
• Artikelnr.: 71983986

Autorenporträt

CLARA LEWIS is a senior lecturer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is the author of Tough on Hate? The Cultural Politics of Hate, also published by Rutgers University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Disgraced by a Crime So Disgusting"
Part I: Intellectual, Legal, and Social History
1. "Innocent and Seduced" versus "Lewd and Cunning": The Invention of
Blameless and Blameworthy Infanticidal Mothers
2. The Discovery of Heterogeneity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Motive, Agency, and Culpability
Part II: A Double Tragedy
3. Losing Addison
4. Losing Emile
5. No Safe Haven: Addressing the Mistreatment of Neonaticide
Conclusion: A Social Theory of Neonaticide Risk
Acknowledgments
Index