Images de nourrices dans la France des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles

摘要

As they became more widely adopted in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century France, wet‐nursing and wet‐nurses appeared prominently in the iconography of the time. Such images turned negative as criticism against “mercenary breast‐feeding” mounted. Over the nineteenth century in particular, wet‐nurses were heavily featured in press caricatures: they were being mocked while described as simple‐minded, dumb, greedy creatures, with proclivities ranging from a taste for garish attire, to sexual appetites fuelling trysts in public gardens with soldiers on leave. A representative sample of such images will be selected to highlight the codes and values underpinning this mockery.View full textDownload full textKeywordsFrance, iconography, wet‐nurses, breast‐feeding, caricatures, health‐policyRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2010.526348