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Roman Charity : Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture
- Source :
- Image ISBN: 9783837632842, Image
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- transcript Verlag, 2016.
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Abstract
- »Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It analyses why early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene »good to think with« and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality. Jutta Gisela Sperling discusses the different visual contexts in which »Roman Charity« flourished and reconstructs contemporary horizons of expectation by reference to literary sources, medical practice, and legal culture.
- Subjects :
- History
Kulturgeschichte
Sexualität
Social History, Historical Social Research
Gender
cultural history
frühe Neuzeit
early modern times
Stillen
Kultur
sexuality
art history
Geschichte
Visual Culture
Queer Studies
Early Modern History
Patriarchy
Image
Visual Studies
Queer Theory
Fine Arts
Väter
Kunst
Kunstgeschichte
ddc:700
ddc:900
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
art
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-3-8376-3284-2
- ISBNs :
- 9783837632842
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Image ISBN: 9783837632842, Image
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4495b9013d1f7c1eb514d6031cbfa254