History of Breastfeeding
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The Uncomfortable Boob
"We don't like women's bodies. They're quite abject and disgusting," she says. "And we certainly don't want to think about anything that comes out of our bodies." The idea of milk, this like fluid, it could be a potential contagion is also squeamish in society today,. But I definitely think with the question of the boob, I mean, going back to thinking about the Madonna and child, there was that issue a lot in the kind of representations ... We seem very uncomfortable with what they're actually there for".
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