🎧 History of Breastfeeding
🎧 Betwixt the Sheets • 48m
How has our relationship with breast milk changed through history? Why are there associations of shame with this most natural act, of us consuming humanities first food? And what does the formation of our galaxy have to do with it?
Joining Kate today is Joanna Wolfarth, art historian and author of Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding, to unpack all of this and more.
This episode was edited and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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