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Babyfarming

Allen, Judith. “Octavius Beale Reconsidered: Infanticide, Babyfarming and Abortion in Nsw 1880-1939.” In What Rough Beast?: The State and Social Order in Australian History, edited by Sydney Labour History Group, 111-29. Sydney; London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1982.

Bongiorno, Frank. The Sex Lives of Australians: A History Melbourne: Schwartz Publishing, 2012.

Cossins, Annie. The Baby Farmers.  Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2013.

Davies, Susanne. “Captives of Their Bodies: Women, Law and Punishment, 1880s-1980s.” In Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia, edited by Diane Kirkby, 99-115. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Featherstone, Lisa. Let’s Talk About Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the Pill.  Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

Finch, Lynette. The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance.  St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1993.

Gardiner, Diane. “Felon Families.” In The Australian Family: Images and Essays, edited by Anna Epstein, 117-24. Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 1998.

Gregory, Helen and John Thearle. “Casualties of Brisbane’s Growth: Infant and Child Mortality in the 1860s.” In Brisbane: Housing, Health, the River and the Arts, edited by Rod and Ray Sumner Fisher, 56-70. Brisbane: Brisbane History Group, 1985.

McCulloch, John E.S. “Baby-Farming and Benevolence in Brisbane, 1885–1915.” Hecate 36 (2010): 42-56.

Swain, Shurlee, and Renate Howe. Single Mothers and Their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia. (Cambridge; Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1995.)

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