Download or read book Maternal Breast-Feeding and Its Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century French Art written by Gal Ventura and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gal Ventura explores the ideological sources promoting maternal breast-feeding in modern Western society, through a survey of hundreds of artworks produced in France from the French Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century.