Female Criminality: Infanticide, Moral Panics and The Female Body

by Annie Cossins

This is the first book to consider the moral regulation of the female body through an analysis of the crime of infanticide. An in-depth perspective from the nineteenth century to the present, Cossins provides a revealing insight into the history of a little-known but widespread social crime.

Genres: Nonfiction

309 pages, Hardcover

First published January 16, 2015