Nicola Goc, Women, Infanticide & the Press, 1822-1922. News Narratives in England and Australia
Nicola Goc, a young Australian historian, has examined “news narratives” of infanticide trials in England and America in the century between the institution of a new legal severity towards unwed mothers and the legal “modernization” of infanticide law. There has been a good deal of attention in rec...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2015
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Crynodeb: | Nicola Goc, a young Australian historian, has examined “news narratives” of infanticide trials in England and America in the century between the institution of a new legal severity towards unwed mothers and the legal “modernization” of infanticide law. There has been a good deal of attention in recent years to the “woman’s crime” of infanticide, but Goc’s subject is not the crime but the “news narratives” created by infanticide trials. She takes advantage of the advance of digitization to cl... |
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