{"product_id":"american-infanticide-sexism-science-and-the-politics-of-sympathy-paperback-softback-9781978833821","title":"American Infanticide; Sexism, Science, and the Politics of Sympathy (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978833821","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerican Infanticide\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSexism, Science, and the Politics of Sympathy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClara S. Lewis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978833821\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e214 pages, 3 color images\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOn April 22, 2015, the sorority sisters at Ohio's Muskingum University's Delta house encountered a horrific scene: pools of blood and gore in the first-floor bathroom. No one knew exactly what had happened, but the sisters suspected it had something to do with Emile Weaver. Studious, athletic, and well-liked, Emile had recently started wearing bulky sweatsuits and hiding her midsection, as if she was covering up a sudden weight gain. Could Emile be pregnant?\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  Emboldened by fear, the sorority sisters investigated. In the driveway next to the kitchen door, they found Emile's newborn baby girl dead inside a garbage bag. Emile's crime seemed senseless and left her family and friends with an aching question: what happened?\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eAmerican Infanticide \u003c\/i\u003esituates Emile's tragic act in a long intellectual, social, and legal history, uncovering disturbing missing chapters in our national history that undercut myths that have shaped public reactions to so-called monster moms and dumpster babies since the colonial era. Ultimately, the book uncovers how bias and inconsistency dictate how women accused of infant homicide are perceived and punished and sheds new light on how and why our legal responses to infanticide are so deeply misguided.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: \"\u003cbr\u003eDisgraced by a Crime So Disgusting\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Part I: Intellectual, Legal, and Social History\u003cbr\u003e  1. \"\u003cbr\u003eInnocent and Seduced\"\u003cbr\u003e versus \"\u003cbr\u003eLewd and Cunning\"\u003cbr\u003e: The Invention of Blameless and Blameworthy Infanticidal Mothers\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Discovery of Heterogeneity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Motive, Agency, and Culpability\u003cbr\u003e  Part II: A Double Tragedy\u003cbr\u003e  3. Losing Addison\u003cbr\u003e  4. Losing Emile\u003cbr\u003e  5. No Safe Haven: Addressing the Mistreatment of Neonaticide\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: A Social Theory of Neonaticide Risk\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: \"Disgraced by a Crime\u003cbr\u003e  So Disgusting\" 1\u003cbr\u003e  PA R T I\u003cbr\u003e  The Intellectual and Legal\u003cbr\u003e  History of Infanticide\u003cbr\u003e  1 \"Innocent and Seduced\" versus \"Lewd and Cunning\":\u003cbr\u003e  The Invention of Blameless and Blameworthy\u003cbr\u003e  Infanticidal Mothers\u003cbr\u003e  23\u003cbr\u003e  2 The Discovery of Heterogeneity: Interdisciplinary\u003cbr\u003e  Perspectives on Motive, Agency, and Culpability 55\u003cbr\u003e  PA R T I I\u003cbr\u003e  A Double Tragedy\u003cbr\u003e  3 Losing Addison 89\u003cbr\u003e  4 Losing Emile 111\u003cbr\u003e  5 No Safe Haven: Addressing the Mistreatment\u003cbr\u003e  of Neonaticide 153\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: A Social Theory of Neonaticide Risk 163\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  171\u003cbr\u003e  Notes 173\u003cbr\u003e  Index 000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640473809176,"sku":"9781978833821","price":21.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/american-infanticide-sexism-science-and-the-politics-of-sympathy-paperback-softback-9781978833821","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}