Referring to Darillyn Starr`s comments about breastfeeding being explicitly displayed in films of the early 20th century, I think that the most beautiful moving scene in John Steinbeck`s Grapes of Wrath is  at the very end of the book/film/stage play.
The community has suffered from devastating floods and exhausted and starving they seek refuge on the higher lands.

Rose of Sharon has given birth to a dead baby and is suffering from "milk fever". The family are trying to save her when their attention is drawn to an old man lying in the corner of the shed dying of hunger.  Without words and with their eyes meeting, Rose of Sharon and her mother know what must be done. The old man is resistant to the suggestion he suck from her breast but eventually he does so...............She cradles him in her arms and speaks tenderly as if he was her child.
When I saw this play on Broadway some years ago, there was a gasp from the audience as the curtain went down on this scene, not of disgust or contempt but of awe and wonder and sympathy that this act of nature was saving the lives of two people.

Wendy Blumfield
NCT Childbirth Educator/Breastfeeding Counsellor
Israel Childbirth Education Centre.

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