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In order to answer the question in the title of this chapter, it is necessary to document the development and significance of Victorian concepts of womanhood and motherhood, since it was in the Victorian period that female sexuality and the body became a critical issue for social commentators, legislators and the medical profession. What were the values associated with the female body during this time?
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Cossins, A. (2015). Regulation of the Female Body: Was Infanticide a Moral Panic of the Nineteenth Century?. In: Female Criminality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137299420_3
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