Sacrificed for honor: Italian infant abandonment and the politics of reproductive control.

Kertzer, David I., 1948-

Published by Boston: Beacon Press, 1993

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very good dust-jacket, cover price $25.00, attractive copy, very good red half-cloth with light tan boards, little used if at all. KERTZER, DAVID I. Sacrificed for honor: Italian infant abandonment and the politics of reproductive control. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiii, 252pp., . Sacrificed for Honor reveals a shocking and little-known system for the surveillance and control of unmarried mothers and their children that operated in Catholic Europe for nearly three centuries, ending just a century ago. - CONTENTS: 1. Abandoning Babies in Italy: A History -- 2. Bastards, the Church, and Honor -- 3. Policing Women -- 4. The Geography of Infant Abandonment -- 5. At the Wheel -- 6. Nursing and Dying: The Slaughter of the Innocents -- 7. Closing the Wheel -- 8. Explaining Abandonment. 9780807056042 ISBN 0807056049. Seller Inventory # 95335

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Title: Sacrificed for honor: Italian infant ...

Publisher: Boston: Beacon Press, 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition