Table of contents
Abstract & Preface
poetry by
Adrienne Rich
Chapter I
The hand of "El caballero de la mano al pecho"
Chapter II
Iconographical sources of nursing and nursing gestures in pre-Christian and non-Christian cultures
Chapter III
Iconographical sources of nursing and nursing gestures in Christian cultures
Chapter IV
Breast-feeding forms in the Renaissance
Chapter V
Literary sources of lactating goddesses
Chapter VI
The meaning of the Ostentatio Mammarum
and the pseudo- zygodactylous gesture
Illustrations & Bibliography
Biographical sketch
Footnotes
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Small mouths, needy, suck you: This is love
--To a poet
Remind me how we loved our mother's body
our mouths drawing the first thin
sweetness from her nipples
--Sibling mysteries
... And how beneath
the strange male bodies
we sank in terror and resignation
and how we taught them tenderness
the holding-back, the play,
the floating of a finger
the secrets of the nipple
--Sibling mysteries, 3
-- Adrienne Rich, The dream of
a common language
poems 1974-1977
Yamauba Nursing Kintoki
print: Kitagawa Utamaro 1802 Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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