Killer Mothers: The Legal Construction of Infanticide and Honor in Mexico in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
The penal conceptualization of infanticide (understood as the murder of a newborn) in the 1871 Federal Penal Code resulted from the construction of the liberal patriarchal state. Two interrelated phenomena justified the inclusion of infanticide in Mexican criminal law: the legal value of female sexu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social History Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 160 - 183 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Fall2025
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