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Women, Infanticide and the Press, 1822-1922 - News Narratives in England and Australia (Paperback)
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Women, Infanticide and the Press, 1822-1922 - News Narratives in England and Australia (Paperback)
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In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared
from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional
Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses
Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal both the broader patterns and
the particular rhetorical strategies journalists used to report on
young women who killed their babies. Her study takes Foucault's
perspective that the production of knowledge, of 'facts' and truth
claims, and the exercise of power, are inextricably connected to
discourse. Newspaper discourses provide a way to investigate the
discursive practices that brought the nineteenth-century
infanticidal woman - known as 'the Infanticide' - into being. The
actions of the infanticidal mother were understood as a fundamental
threat to society, not only because they subverted the ideal of
Victorian womanhood but also because a woman's actions destroyed a
man's lineage. For these reasons, Goc demonstrates, infanticide
narratives were politicised in the press and woven into
interconnected narratives about the regulation of women, women's
rights, the family, the law, welfare, and medicine that dominated
nineteenth-century discourse. For example, the Times used
individual stories of infanticide to argue against the Bastardy
Clause in the Poor Law that denied unmarried women and their
children relief. Infanticide narratives often adopted the
conventions of the courtroom drama, with the young transgressive
female positioned against a body of male authoritarian figures, a
juxtaposition that reinforced male authority over women. Alive to
the marked differences between various types of newspapers, Goc's
study offers a rich and nuanced discussion of the Victorian press's
fascination with infanticide. At the same time, infanticide news
stories shaped how women who killed their babies were known and
understood in ways that pathologised their actions. This, in turn,
influenced medical, judicial, and welfare policies regar
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