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Infanticide

Allen, Judith A. Sex and Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women since 1880.  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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.

Carmichael, Gordon A. “From Floating Brothels to Suburban Semirespectability: Two Centuries of Nonmarital Pregnancy in Australia.” Journal of Family History 21 (1996): 281-315.

Cook, Hera. “Unseemly and Unwomanly Behaviour: Comparing Women’s Control of Their Fertility in Australia and England from 1890 to 1970.” Journal of Population Research 17, no. 2 (2000): 125-41.

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.

Goc, Nicola. Women, Infanticide and the Press 1822–1922: News Narratives from England and Australia.  Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.

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.

Hogan, Ashley. ““I Never Noticed She Was Dirty”: Fatherhood and the Death of Charlotte Duffy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Victoria.” Journal of Family History 24, no. 3 (1999): 305-16.

Laster, Kathy. “Frances Knorr: ‘She Killed Babies, Didn’t She?’.” In Double Time: Women in Victoria, 150 Years, edited by Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly, 148-56. Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1985.

Laster, Kathy. “Infanticide: A Litmus Test for Feminist Criminological Theory.” Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 22 (September 1989): 151-66.

Rychner, Georgina. “Murderess or Madwoman? Margaret Heffernan, Infanticide and Insanity in Colonial Victoria.” Lilith, no. 23 (2017): 91-104.

Siedlecky, Stefania, and Diana Wyndham. Populate and Perish: Australian Women’s Fight for Birth Control.  Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990.

Sumerling, Patricia. “The Darker Side of Motherhood: Abortion and Infanticide in South Australia 1870-1910.” Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 13 (1985): 111-27.

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

Swain, Shurlee. “The Concealment of Birth in Nineteenth-Century Victoria.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 5 (1988): 139-47.

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