Social History of Art
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Public Domain Images Scanned for My Essays
De Hooch, Mother Nursing, c. 1660, San Francisco, De Young Museum
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My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 17th Northern). My essay discusses the Dutch middle-class gender politics of "feminine" domesticity, breastfeeding, and cooking, on the one hand, and the new attentive parenting pioneered by the Dutch.
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