num_pages: 272
description: Sacrificed for Honor reveals a shocking and little-known system for the surveillance and control of unmarried mothers and their children that operated in Catholic Europe for nearly three centuries, ending just a century ago.
language: English
title: Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control
titlecomplete: Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control
genres: Italy, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Beacon Pr