title: [Images of nursing mothers in France, 18th and 19th centuries].
abstract: 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.
authors: Sceaux, France .
authors: Marie-France
authors: MF
authors: Morel
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D002325:Caricatures as Topic / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D005602:France / Q000208:ethnology; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D010781:Photography / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D012919:Social Behavior / Q000266:history; D012924:Social Conditions / Q000266:history; D012945:Social Values / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D013240:Stereotyping; D016387:Women's Health / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history