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Article: Murderous Madonna: femininity, violence, and the myth of postpartum mental disorder in cases of maternal infanticide and filicide.
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- William and Mary Law Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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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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