Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present by Valerie A. Fildes

Family, Sexuality, and Social Relations in Past Times

Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present

Valerie A. Fildes

300 pages 1988

1 edition

nonfiction sociology informative slow-paced
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Wet nursing, or breast feeding another's child for money, is one of the oldest occupations open to women. This book is a history of these substitute mothers from earliest times to the present. Valerie Fildes examines wet nursing practices in ancie...

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