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Authors and Corporations: McGregor, Judy
In: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 19, 2013, 1, p. 293-295
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Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 293-295
ISSN: 2324-2035
1023-9499
DOI: 10.24135/pjr.v19i1.252
published in: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
Language: Undetermined
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Collection: Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>Every once in a while an academic researcher will privately concede they would like to have written the book they have reviewed. Count me in that category. Nicola Goc’s examination of news narratives of infanticide from 1822-1922 in Britain and Australia reveals painstaking scholarship. It yields insights into the primacy of crime news, the ideology of infanticide news discourse, the privileging of medical and legal voices in courtroom reportage, and the personification of infanticide women as maternal deviants, mad women or as celebrity subjects of newspaper campaigning.</jats:p>