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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