The leading elements in this volume are the cultural representation of birth and the forms through which its narration and representation develop in the figurat

This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman – biological mother and othermother – in a

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Gal Ventura explores the ideological sources promoting maternal breast-feeding in modern Western society, through a survey of hundreds of artworks produced in F