Felicity M Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5532804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felicity M Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felicity M |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4813-3745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reconstruction and the Regulation of Sexuality
For decades, a powerful freedom narrative has shaped the historiography of Reconstruction. Informed by scholarship that privileges the extension of rights to the newly emancipated as a major benefit of Reconstruction, that narrative has typically privileged state regulation as a necessary tool for ensuring the maintenance of those rights. Drawing on recent strands of the historiography that have begun to complicate that narrative, this essay exam…
Serving her Sentence
Drawing on court cases, newspaper reports and pardon records from nineteenth‐century North Carolina in relation to infant murder and infanticide, this article complicates historical ideas about gender and incarceration by positing that in some circumstances, segregation in carceral spaces by virtue of gender served to benefit some women. Using the example of North Carolina – singular because of its lack of a centralised state prison in the years …
Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic, Sarah E. Naramore
Introduction
On October 2, 2020, a newborn infant girl was discovered in the trash in an airport bathroom in Doha, Qatar. There was a rush to secure the infant's life, which was successful. There was a rush, also, to find the infant's mother, an effort that involved subjecting several women to intrusive physical examinations to determine if they had recently given birth, leading, eventually, to international outcry
The Contradictions of Reform
“The Contradictions of Reform” analyses the complications of reform of legislation regulating punishment for women convicted of infanticide in Connecticut between 1790 and 1860, within the context of broader social, cultural, and legal understandings of the crime within the US. These changes are investigated through a close reading of petitions for clemency to Connecticut's General Assembly in which women convicted of the crime petitioned the sta…
Deindividuation, Psychology of
The Color of Class
The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege by Kirby Moss. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. [viii]. 162 pp. (Cloth US$45.00; Paper US$16.50)
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The Color of Class
The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege by Kirby Moss. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. [viii]. 162 pp. (Cloth US$45.00; Paper US$16.50)
Deindividuation, Psychology of
Introduction
On October 2, 2020, a newborn infant girl was discovered in the trash in an airport bathroom in Doha, Qatar. There was a rush to secure the infant's life, which was successful. There was a rush, also, to find the infant's mother, an effort that involved subjecting several women to intrusive physical examinations to determine if they had recently given birth, leading, eventually, to international outcry
The Contradictions of Reform
“The Contradictions of Reform” analyses the complications of reform of legislation regulating punishment for women convicted of infanticide in Connecticut between 1790 and 1860, within the context of broader social, cultural, and legal understandings of the crime within the US. These changes are investigated through a close reading of petitions for clemency to Connecticut's General Assembly in which women convicted of the crime petitioned the sta…
Reconstruction and the Regulation of Sexuality
For decades, a powerful freedom narrative has shaped the historiography of Reconstruction. Informed by scholarship that privileges the extension of rights to the newly emancipated as a major benefit of Reconstruction, that narrative has typically privileged state regulation as a necessary tool for ensuring the maintenance of those rights. Drawing on recent strands of the historiography that have begun to complicate that narrative, this essay exam…
Serving her Sentence
Drawing on court cases, newspaper reports and pardon records from nineteenth‐century North Carolina in relation to infant murder and infanticide, this article complicates historical ideas about gender and incarceration by positing that in some circumstances, segregation in carceral spaces by virtue of gender served to benefit some women. Using the example of North Carolina – singular because of its lack of a centralised state prison in the years …
Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic, Sarah E. Naramore
Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works)