Julie Hardwick

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Julie Hardwick is the John E. Green Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She writes about the intersections of gender, family, sexuality, economy, law, and the state in early modern France and the global early modern world.

The Deathbed

Dead Babies in Boxes: Dealing with the Consequences of Interrupted Reproduction

By Julie Hardwick • September 10, 2020

One morning in June 2019, two city workers in Lyon, France, pulled a plastic bag out of the river that runs through the city center and found it contained the body of a “late term fetus or a newborn baby thought to be less than a day old.” Such occurrences have a long history in… Read more →