Infanticide and infant abandonment in the new South: Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1915
Infanticide and infant abandonment in the new South: Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1915
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DOI：
10.1177/036319909902400204
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发表时间：
1999-04-01
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0.6
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Green, EC
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Green, EC
南北战争和重建以及南北战争后的南方工业化造成了巨大规模的经济混乱。经济动荡的产物之一是杀婴和弃婴问题日益严重。这一案例研究的里士满，弗吉尼亚州，审查模式的遗弃和杀害的记录，城市救济院和城市验尸官它表明，种族塑造了妇女的选择与问题怀孕，非洲裔美国妇女有机会获得较少的社会福利机构，如产妇之家。因此，未婚黑人妇女比白人更经常地保留他们的非婚生子女，但他们也比白人更高的谋杀率。此外，种族灭绝和遗弃婴儿的趋势表明，里士满的白色工人阶级在20世纪初经历了经济进步，而该市的黑人工人阶级在整个时期继续生活在萧条的条件下。
The Civil War and Reconstruction and the South's postbellum industrialization produced economic dislocation on a tremendous scale. One product of that economic upheaval was an increasing problem of infanticides and infant abandonments. This case study of Richmond, Virginia, examines patterns of abandonment and neonaticide as documented in records of the city almshouse and the city coroner It demonstrates that race shaped the options available to women with problem pregnancies in that African America women had access to fewer social welfare institutions such as maternity homes. As a result, unmarried black women kept their out-of-wedlock babies more often than did whites, but they also committed infanticide at higher rates than did whites. Moreover; racial trends in infanticides and infant abandonment suggest that Richmond's white working class experienced economic advancements at the turn of the twentieth century, while the city's black working class continued to live in depression-like conditions throughout the period.