Article: Murderous Madonna: femininity, violence, and the myth of postpartum mental disorder in cases of maternal infanticide and filicide.

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
INTRODUCTION 
  I. POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS AND CULTURAL VALUES 
 CONCERNING FEMININITY 
 A. Feminist Legal Theory and Mothers Who Kill 
 B. The Insanity Defense and Female Offenders 
 C. Dangerous Impact of the Denial of Female 
Violence on the Justice System 
 D. Issues of Femininity and Violence in Yates's Trials 
 E. The Institutionalization of Female Passivity and 
Nonviolence in American Law 
 II. ARGUMENT AGAINST THE ENACTMENT OF AN  AMERICAN INFANTICIDE ACT 
 A. Faulty Presumption that All Maternal Killings 
Result from the Effects of Childbirth 
 B. Misplaced Belief that Women Should Be 
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