Table of contents
Abstract & Preface
poetry by
Adrienne Rich
Chapter I
The hand of "El caballero de la mano al pecho"
Chapter II
Iconographical sources of nursing and nursing gestures in pre-Christian and non-Christian cultures
Chapter III
Iconographical sources of nursing and nursing gestures in Christian cultures
Chapter IV
Breast-feeding forms in the Renaissance
Chapter V
Literary sources of lactating goddesses
Chapter VI
The meaning of the Ostentatio Mammarum
and the pseudo- zygodactylous gesture
Illustrations & Bibliography
Biographical sketch
Footnotes