Abstract
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice. Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
Highlights
Memento Mori convincingly shows the range of possibilities left to explore in writing the history of death in the Dutch-German border region
Roth departs from the original premise that studying reproduction implies putting together fertility control – including the practices of abortion and infanticide – on the one hand, and pregnancy and childbirth, on the other
The scope of the book is restricted to Brazil’s capital, Rio de Janeiro, and it is based on a great variety of sources that include mostly court files of abortion and infanticide of the period 1900-1940
Summary
Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press, 2020). A Miscarriage of Justice promises to be a history of women’s reproductive lives and the law in Brazil in the early twentieth century.
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