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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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 Crimes, 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 Introduction: “Disgraced by a Crime So Disgusting” 1 PA R T I The Intellectual and Legal History of Infanticide 1 “Innocent and Seduced” versus “Lewd and Cunning”: The Invention of Blameless and Blameworthy Infanticidal Mothers 23 2 The Discovery of Heterogeneity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Motive, Agency, and Culpability 55 PA R T I I A Double Tragedy 3 Losing Addison 89 4 Losing Emile 111 5 No Safe Haven: Addressing the Mistreatment of Neonaticide 153 Conclusion: A Social Theory of Neonaticide Risk 163 Acknowledgments 171 Notes 173 Index 000
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 Introduction: “Disgraced by a Crime So Disgusting” 1 PA R T I The Intellectual and Legal History of Infanticide 1 “Innocent and Seduced” versus “Lewd and Cunning”: The Invention of Blameless and Blameworthy Infanticidal Mothers 23 2 The Discovery of Heterogeneity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Motive, Agency, and Culpability 55 PA R T I I A Double Tragedy 3 Losing Addison 89 4 Losing Emile 111 5 No Safe Haven: Addressing the Mistreatment of Neonaticide 153 Conclusion: A Social Theory of Neonaticide Risk 163 Acknowledgments 171 Notes 173 Index 000
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