For over 40 years, the sexual selection hypothesis of infanticide has sparked primatological interest in the evolutionary basis of this presumptively adaptive behavior. Infanticide by males has been largely accepted as a reproductive strategy in that when a new dominant sire kil…
This dissertation examines popular literary representations of domestic crime in Elizabethan and Stuart England (circa 1550-1650), exploring the ways real-life scandals were torn from the headlines to address contemporary anxieties about gender roles, treason, obedience, and the…
This dissertation examines the intersection of the prosecution of criminal justice, sexual morality and the family at the parlement of Paris, which was the highest court of appeal in France, during the height of its power and influence in the kingdom from 1564-1655. This dissert…
From the early nineteenth century, the British medical community worked to redefine and reassert their professional space within society. During this process, medical men developed specific areas of focus and began to develop these into specialized subfields of medical knowledge…
Phoenicians were among the great civilizers of the ancient world, establishing alphabetic literacy, colonial urbanism and trade networks throughout the Mediterranean. But Classicists have downplayed their alphabetic gift as non-vocalic, their colonies as mere trading posts, and …
A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the abolition of slavery in 1888 and the onset of republicanism in 1889, women's reproductive capabilities--their ability to conceive and raise …