World of the Baby - Hardcover
Celebrates the world of childhood and infancy through a wide variety of paintings, drawings, engravings, and photographs, also providing a history of changing fashions in baby care over thousands of years
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Organized thematically to cover allied subjects such as conception, birth and infancy, this pictorial historical survey of how we have viewed and cared for babies is a handsomely produced if predictable compendium of familiar information. "It is sad, but true, that not all babies are wanted," notes a chapter on foundlings from Moses onward, and "to understand why people disposed of their babies in this way, we need to examine their motives." Of greater interest is the factual material unveiled by O'Hara ( Encyclopaediasic of Fashion ): to induce pregnancy, one American Indian tribe "cut off the feet of gophers which they boiled and then ate"; another sent would-be mothers to walk under trees, believed to be roosting places for babies' souls. The practice of swaddling was intended to discipline as much as to protect a child; one English rite required that a newborn's head be "washed in rum for luck." Excerpts from works by Dickens, Hardy, Thackeray, Wilde and others complement paintings plus illustrations of the "American-made Miller Breast Pump," a zodiac-inspired 19th century Arts and Crafts cradle and the like.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0385260563
- ISBN 13 9780385260565
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages190
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