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


   

The Pseudozygodactylous Gesture
of the Lactating Goddess:
Evolution and Migration
by thomas peter kunesh

Gerard David's painting of the Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child
by Gerard David



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