Pat writes:
<< religious overtones...[snip]... But it could be because she is BF
in Public - gasp. >>
In Marina Warner's book on the iconography of Mary in Christianity, _Alone of
All Her Sex_, there is a great section on the former popularity of the image
of Maria Lactans, and its decline in the 18th and 19th centuries. (A great
book altogether in fact)
Elisheva
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