Maternal Breast-Feeding and Its Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century French Art

Gal Ventura explores the ideological sources promoting maternal breast-feeding in modern Western society, through a survey of hundreds of artworks produced in France from the French Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century.

About the author

Gal Ventura (Ph.D. 2009) is a senior lecturer in the art history department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a cultural art historian, and deals mainly with socio-medical aspects of family, maternity and death in nineteenth-century French art. She published numerous articles on motherhood in art, including Crying over Spilt Milk (Magnes, 2013), and is currently writing a book on babies' sleep in nineteenth-century French art.

Product details

• Authors: Gal Ventura
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2018
• EAN: 9789004366824
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36682-4
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 241 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1043 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)