TY - BOOK AU - Sperling,Jutta Gisela TI - Roman Charity: Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture T2 - Image SN - 9783839432846 AV - N8217.B75 S64 2016 U1 - 704.9/424 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Bielefeld : PB - transcript-Verlag, KW - Breastfeeding in art KW - Gays KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex and history KW - Sex KW - Social aspects KW - Art History KW - Art KW - Cultural History KW - Early Modern History KW - Fine Arts KW - Gender KW - Image KW - Patriarchy KW - Queer Studies KW - Queer Theory KW - Visual Studies KW - ART / Criticism KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part I: Images --; Chapter 1. Breastfeeding Pero --; Chapter 2. The Caravaggesque Moment --; Chapter 3. Poussin's and Rubens's Long Shadows --; Part II: Texts and Contexts --; Chapter 4. The Literary Tradition --; Chapter 5. Adult Breastfeeding as Cure --; Chapter 6. Charity, Mother of Allegory --; Chapter 7. Patriarchy and Its Discontents --; Appendix --; List of Figures --; Table. Caravaggisti, Caravaggeschi, and Their Iconographical Choices1 --; Works Cited --; Index of Artists; Open Access N2 - »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 UR - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432846 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9783839432846.jpg ER -