Desposesiones. La narrativa de Fernanda Trías by Nora Domínguez

“…From the initial proposal of family confinement, women murder, the violence of incest and infanticide in the first novels to the re-elaboration of literary figures of fear Trías create abandoned and precarious lives who challenge the limits of institutions and their norms to question the reading and intelligibility frameworks of violence in its different social, sexual and aesthetic versions.…”
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Forbidden to Sacrifice Humans or Eat Dogs: Revisiting the Tophet Debate though a Demographic Lens by Nathan L. Pilkington

“…Here, I move away from those sources and suggest a series of demographic models in order to understand better the effects of infanticide on population growth at Phoenician colonies in the Early Iron Age central Mediterranean. …”
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“ONCE UPON A TIME” BY NADINE GORDIMER: A FAIRY TALE FOR PEACE by Biancamaria Rizzardi

“…By placing the contentious theme of infanticide at the centre of the narration, and with a touch that is unexpectedly both light and ironic, the author creates a fairy tale that, while meeting the requirements of the genre, also manages to distance itself from this through weight of grief. …”
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Twilight by Preethu P

“…At the same time, she has to suffer a lot of atrocities in the patriarchal society, ranging from female infanticide to death. Juniper symbolises the journey in which selfhood is not compromised. …”
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Reproductive success of female leopards Panthera pardus: The importance of top-down processes by Balme, G, Batchelor, A, De Woronin Britz, N, Seymour, G, Grover, M, Hes, L, Macdonald, D, Hunter, L

“…Male leopards were responsible for many (40%) cub deaths and females appeared to adopt severalstrategies to counter the risk of infanticide, including paternity confusion and displaying a period of reduced fertility immediately after a resident male was replaced. …”

« L’infamille ». Les violences familiales sur la céramique classique entre monstration et occultation by Aurélie Damet

“…Only a mythological and often conflictual background, known by both the artist and the public, could provide clues to identify family members. Infanticide is particularly depicted and the violent and conscious mothers, as Medea, Prokne or Clytemnestra, are recurrent actors. …”
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A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India by Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram

“…Sheela Saravanan, whose main area of expertise is Public Health and the Global Reproductive Technologies, has specialized in reproductive health in South Asia, as well as violence against women and female infanticide in India, themes which have taken her to study the impact of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) in Asia and in Europe. …”
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Die Geschlechterdichotomie in edukativen Kontexten aus soziobiologischer Perspektive by Markus D. Meier

“…In particular, the concepts of “male competition vs. female choice”, “male bonding” and “infanticide prevention”, as well as the female hypergamy imperative are referred to and translated into pedagogical contexts. …”
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Needle insertion in a child: A rare form of child abuse by Archika Gupta, Om Prakash Purbey, Kanoujia Sunil, Anand Pandey, Shiv Narain Kureel

“…Needle insertion is a rare form of child abuse that, though prevalent in the society as an attempted infanticide/homicide, remains undiagnosed and underreported. …”
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Narrating trauma in Takahashi Takako's 'Sora no hate made': perverse motherhood by Flores, L

“…This paper examines Takahashi Takako’s Sora no hate made (To the far reaches of the skies, 1973) as a piece of trauma fiction, and argues that childbirth, motherhood and infanticide are portrayed as traumatic events in the narrative. …”

Le massacre de la mariée by Bastiaan van der Velden

“…Ce ‘massacre’ est dans ce cas plus précisément une attraction foraine. D’autre part l’infanticide à Bethlehem constitue un sujet maintes fois représenté par différents peintres. …”
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Le massacre de la mariée by Bastiaan van der Velden

“…Ce ‘massacre’ est dans ce cas plus précisément une attraction foraine. D’autre part l’infanticide à Bethlehem constitue un sujet maintes fois représenté par différents peintres. …”
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Fruits of Chastity and Lasciviousness: the Abandoned Children in Recife (1789-1832) by Alcileide Cabral do Nascimento

“…As live evidence of the moral “weakness” or as a “fruit of misery”, they were abandoned to bad weather conditions and carnivorous animals, left at houses’ and churches’ doors, on the streets and alleys, until the House of the Bare was finally created, mainly to shelter and rear them, to protect the honor of the well-born women and to discourage the infanticide. Paradoxically, the discourses, interdictions and the normalization relating to sexuality and religiousness of the settlers’ lives were also a support for the habit of abandoning children. …”
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Léopold Chauveau et ses « histoires du petit père Renaud » : Cronos au cœur de l’invention by Marie-Pierre Litaudon

“…Leur écriture s’enracine dans l’expérience traumatique de la Grande Guerre pour en dénoncer le caractère infanticide et ouvrir auprès des plus jeunes la voie d’une nouvelle sagesse.…”
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Neural Contributions of the Hypothalamus to Parental Behaviour by Chitose Orikasa

“…Abolishing MCH neurons in innate MCH knockout males promotes infanticide in virgin male mice. To understand the mechanism and function of neural networks underlying parental care and aggression against pups, it is essential to understand the basic organisation and function of the involved nuclei. …”
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Mortality Causes in Free-Ranging Eurasian Brown Bears (<i>Ursus arctos arctos</i>) in Spain 1998–2018 by Ana Balseiro, Luis J. Royo, Elena Gayo, Ramón Balsera, Olga Alarcia, Juan F. García Marín

“…Based on “non-human intervention” or “human intervention” causes, fourteen of the 21 (66.7%) brown bears died as a consequence of “non-human intervention” due to traumatic lesions (fights, unknown traumas or infanticide), infectious canine hepatitis, neoplasia or mushroom poisoning. …”
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Faussetés imaginaires by Yvan Tétreault

“…When confronted with a narrative featuring the claim that “In killing her baby, Giselda did the right thing, after all, it was a girl,”one’s response is likely to involve the questioning of the author’s authority: indeed the author may think that female infanticide is morally right, but that is false, even in the story. …”
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The Changing View of Abortion: A Study of Friedrich Wolf's Cyankali and Arnold Zweig's Junge Frau von 1914 by Sabine Schroeder-Krassnow

“…The docile woman who is seduced by the socially higher male and in desperation commits infanticide begins to fade from literature. At the same time a new woman with a fresh vitality emerges and deals with the old problem of pregnancy and abortion. …”
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Transconstitutional Talk Between the Indigenous Culture and the Brazilian Constitutional Order by Bruna Escobar Teixeira, Péricles Stehmann Nunes

“…The research seeks to comprehend the existing cultural conflicts in Brazilian Territory between the culture of certain indigenous cultures, which are similar to their own normative order and the Brazilian Constitutional Order, approaching for that the Law Project no. 1057/2007, which is about the infanticide in some indigenous traditions. It aims to analyse the matter under the Transconstitutional Theory as a means of building a transversal rationality that proposes a profitable dialog amongst the juridical orders. …”
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis in an indigenous infant with Down’s syndrome: A case report by Fernanda Fresneda Villibor, Geracina Marchesini, Ana Lúcia Roselino Ribeiro, Renata Oliveira Guaré

“…Lessons: Because of infanticide practices in indigenous cultures, indigenous infants with Down’s syndrome rarely survive. …”
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