The cultural and economic context of maternal infanticide : a crying baby and the inability to escape /

Almost every story of maternal infanticide starts with "the baby wouldn't stop crying". But the story is more than just bad or mentally ill mothers who lethally assault their baby. The story is about how hard it is to be a good mother in a society where women are expected to raise t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smithey, Martha (Author)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Infanticide.
Motherhood > Social aspects.
Motherhood > Cross-cultural studies.
Motherhood > Psychological aspects.
Social Science > Criminology.
Crime & criminology.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • An introduction and overview of infanticide
  • Predispositional factors in maternal infanticide
  • Cultural inequality and the mothering ideology
  • A crying baby: the situated context of infanticide
  • A crying baby and the inability to escape
  • Primary prevention and social change
  • Appendix A
  • References
  • Index.

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