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Roman Charity: Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture

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Roman Charity: Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture - Sperling, Jutta Gisela
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The ancient stories of Pero, who breastfed her father, and of the unnamed Roman daughter who breastfed her mother, were of tremendous interest to artists and their audiences from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. The Roman Charity investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The book explores the popularity of a topic that renders modern viewers uneasy, but appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on ...

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Roman Charity: Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture 2016, Transcript Publishing, New York

ISBN-13: 9783837632842

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