Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control by David I. Kertzer

Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control

David I. Kertzer

272 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
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Sacrificed for Honor reveals a shocking and little-known system for the surveillance and control of unmarried mothers and their children that operated in Catholic Europe for nearly three centuries, ending just a century ago.

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