Asesinas por pasión: infanticidas en Río de Janeiro, 1841-1936

ABSTRACT The hygienist speeches that emerged from the second half of the nineteenth century were focused on giving a renewed vision to issues such as marriage, motherhood and puerperal madness, issues that were at the same time related to the conception of female crime. In particular, infanticides created concern among physicians, generating debates and controversies during their analysis, reaching the point that they adopted these discourses, not only to treat them as a physico-pathological fact, but also as a moral character overturn that arose in mothers, but much more in those considered d...