Maternal Breast-Feeding and Its Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century French Art.
In Maternal Breast-Feeding and Its Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century French Art , Gal Ventura investigates the ideological concepts behind the endorsement of maternal breast-feeding in modern Western society. Using diverse visual and textual sources and surveying hundreds of artworks produced from t...
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 285 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
v. 285. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 29. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (503 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Mothers, Wet Nurses and Feeding Bottles
- The History of Breast-Feeding in France
- Death and Substitute Mothers
- Breast-Feeding and Death
- Breast-Feeding as Benevolence: Representations of Charity
- From Sanctity to Promiscuity: The Wet Nurse
- Maternal Breast-Feeding
- Charity and Social Justice: Maternal Breast-Feeding among the Lower Classes
- Fertility, Nature, and Work in the Fields: Maternal Breast-Feeding among the Peasantry
- A Woman’s Virtue: Portrayals of Breast-Feeding among the Bourgeoisie
- Afterword
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index of Names.