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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.
History of civilization --- Thematology --- Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Iconography --- Mother and child in literature --- Breastfeeding in literature --- Breastfeeding in art --- Women and religion --- Wet nurses in literature --- Breastfeeding --- History --- Mother and child in literature. --- Breastfeeding in literature. --- Breastfeeding in art. --- Wet nurses in literature. --- History. --- Mother and child in literature - History --- Breastfeeding in literature - History --- Breastfeeding in art - History --- Women and religion - History --- Wet nurses in literature - History --- Breastfeeding - History --- Lactation in art --- Lactation in literature --- Arts, Medieval --- Literature, Medieval --- Arts, Renaissance --- European literature --- Renaissance arts --- Breast feeding in literature --- Breast feeding in art --- History and criticism
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Signos vitales: procreación e imagen en la narrativa áurea es la historia cultural de las parteras y nodrizas en el Siglo de Oro. Analiza una selección de formas narrativas en donde la presencia de estas figuras reveló un amplio espectro de preocupaciones en torno al fenómeno de la maternidad, tales como el papel del padre durante el parto, el privilegio otorgado a la comadrona o la necesidad de un ama de leche en el cuidado del neonato. En su recorrido crítico, se detiene igualmente en el examen de una serie de tratados obstétricos y ginecológicos, así como de algunas de las representaciones visuales más poderosas del arte renacentista y barroco. A través de figuras como Miguel de Cervantes, Alonso de Salas Barbadillo, Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Francisco de Quevedo y Francisco Santos, estudia la gradual conversión de la partera en una poderosa metáfora de mediación que sirvió para reflexionar sobre los avatares de la creación personal una vez que esta era manipulada por medios como la imprenta o la puesta en escena. Es este un fenómeno que apenas ha sido estudiado, pero que sin embargo nos ofrece nuevas aproximaciones al fértil diálogo entre la historia de la medicina y la literatura áurea.
Midwives in literature. --- Novela española --- Nodrizas en la literatura. --- Matronas en la literatura. --- Literatura y medicina --- Literatura y medicina --- Wet nurses in literature. --- Spanish fiction --- Literature and medicine --- Literature and medicine --- Historia y crítica. --- Historia --- Historia --- History and criticism. --- History --- History
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