A Romanticist Reflects on Breastfeeding
Corin Throsby discusses breastfeeding, tracking the political and social implications of how we have chosen to feed our babies over the past 200 years.
From Romantic notions of the natural nursing mother to Victorian fears of vampirism to modernist associations between breastfeeding and the working class, Corin Throsby, from the University of Cambridge, tracks the political and social implications of how we have chosen to feed our babies over the past 200 years.
Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas in 2017.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who can turn their research into radio.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
Image: Corin Throsby. Credit: Ian Martindale.
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Breast feeding: From pap to bleeding feet
Duration: 01:41
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- Mon 3 Jul 201722:45BBC Radio 3
- Mon 31 Aug 202022:45BBC Radio 3
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