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