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The Second Oldest Profession: The Wet Nurse, Revered And Reviled
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An Illustrated Exploration Of An AgeOld Occupation, At Once LifeGiving And Freighted With Contradictory Ideas About Women And Their Bodies The Wet NurseA Woman Hired To Breastfeed A Child Not Her OwnIs Indeed Attested Far Back In History; In Fact, Archaeologists Have Discovered The Tomb Of TutankhamenS Wet Nurse. In Modern Europe And The United States, Wet Nursing Persisted Into The Early Twentieth Century, When Bottles And Formula Rendered It Obsolete. At One End Of The Social Scale, Wealthy Families Hired Wet Nurses To Spare Mothers The Necessity Of Nursing; At The Other, Foundling Babies Were Fed By Wet Nurses Employed By Orphanages.In This Book, Conceived As Both A Social History And A Feminist Act Of Reparation, Artist Barbara Zucker Uncovers The ForgottenPerhaps Deliberately BuriedOccupation Of Wet Nursing. She Ranges Across Eras And Cultures, Revealing The Practices Surrounding Wet Nursing And The Social Attitudes Toward The Women Who Worked As Wet Nurses, Almost Always Out Of Financial Necessity. She Investigates Such Surprising Topics As Traditional Tests Of The Quality Of Breast Milk (Ranging From Straightforward Tasting To Esoteric, Almost Alchemical Rituals) And Interspecies Nursing (With The GoatS Teat The Most Common StandIn For The Human Breast).ZuckerS Lively Text Is Abundantly Illustrated With Paintings, Prints, And Photographs She Has Teased From The Archives, As Well As Her Own Arresting Drawings And Sculptures Inspired By The Topic. The Second Oldest Profession Will Be Essential And Provocative Reading For Anyone Interested In WomenS History.
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