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Date: | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:15:23 -0500 |
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I'm still wading my way through "Mother Nature" by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, c.
1999 Pantheon Books, Random House, Inc. NY. ISBN: 0-679-44265-0. Like
reading a college text )-: (Text is 541 pages, notes another 47 pages in
small print!) Anyway I'm into the chapter on wet nursing - fascinating.
Let me tell you that before bottles there were wet nurses, to a degree that
I had never imagined. In 1700's in France only 5% of women nursed their
own children! Sound familiar? I guess women have (for various reasons)
always looked for a way out of feeding the baby. I think the bottle symbol
today is an indication of a more global practice/broader issues that we
just aren't aware of. The bottle has become the wet nurse! A lot of what
she talks about was said in a more readable book "The Myths of Motherhood:
How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother" by Shari L. Thurer, 1994, Houghton
Mifflin Co, Boston. ISBN: 0-395-58415-9. Shari is a psychologist and
Sarah is a anthropologist. Oh well back to my reading.
Sincerely, Pat in SNJ
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