Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799-1815

摘要

[...] during the postradical backlash, legislators and ideologues sought to re-establish compromised hierarchies through domestic law and fill the cultural vacuum left by monarchy and church. [...] in 1811, Napoleon tried to stop infanticide and abortion by instituting a national system of hospice tours (wheels) to allow parents to abandon unwanted children, which in France was a new policy development.