Alexandra Woolley
Barbara Orland
breastfeeding visual culture research
Breastfeeding Women
Caroline Castiglione
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Children's Wet Nurse
Children’s Wet Nurse
Christ Child
Debra Blumenthal
Diana Bullen Presciutti
early modern gender
Emilie L. Bergmann
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Fernando III
Foundling Care
Francesco Da Barberino
High Altar Chapel
humoral medicine
Il Polo Museale Della
J. Vanessa Lyon
John's Father
John’s Father
Julia L. Hairston
Libri Della Famiglia
Madonna Lactans
Male Lactation
Maternal Breastfeeding
maternal iconography
Maternal Nursing
Milk Father
Milk Kinship
Mohammed Hocine Benkheira
nurse
Ospedale Di
Patricia Simons
Pio Monte Della Misericordia
Plague Visitations
Rebecca Lynn Winer
Rebecca Totaro
ritual kinship studies
Royal Wet Nurse
sacred eroticism
Tintoretto's Painting
Tintoretto’s Painting
Valencia City
Virgo Lactans
wet
Wet Nurse
wet-nursing history
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781032242965
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the issue, and point to the need for further study, in particular in the realm of lactation imagery in the visual arts. This volume builds on existing scholarship on representations of the breast, the iconography of the Madonna Lactans, allegories of abundance, nature, and charity, women mystics' food-centered practices of devotion, the ubiquitous practice of wet-nursing, and medical theories of conception. It is informed by studies on queer kinship in early modern Europe, notions of sacred eroticism in pre-tridentine Catholicism, feminist investigations of breastfeeding as a sexual practice, and by anthropological and historical scholarship on milk exchange and ritual kinship in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Islamic societies. Proposing a variety of different methods and analytical frameworks within which to consider instances of lactation imagery, breastfeeding practices, and their textual references, this volume also offers tools to support further research on the topic.
Jutta Sperling is Associate Professor of History at Hampshire College, USA.
