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This line of research takes women's experiences and its intersection with social class, race and sex orientation, as the first target for analysis. The male figure is not, however, excluded from our research, allowing us to confront gender privileged positions with submission positions when tied to other social categories.Therefore we believe, following Foucault’s prospect, that although there are no unchangeable or established positions of privilege and domination, in general women are, as a group, most often located in a socially disadvantaged one. Within this line of research, and more recently, our target is women who, in a state of confinement or not, have been legally or socially criminalized and punished. It is the case of women who kill their own children (infanticide and filicide). In this context, we have studied the legislation on infanticide and motherhood genealogy trying to understand the knowledge involved in these constructions. In parallel, we have devoted our attention to public opinion about women who commit this kind of murder: should they be punished as men? What are the losses of pathologizing this crime to the image of overall women in society?
