The Second Oldest Profession : The Wet Nurse, Revered and Reviled Paperback / softback and what the rest of

and what the rest of the world can - and can't - learn from the North

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The Second Oldest Profession : The Wet Nurse, Revered and Reviled Paperback / softback and what the rest ofAn illustrated exploration of an age old occupation, at once life giving and freighted with contradictory ideas about women and their bodies. The wet nurse a woman hired to breastfeed a child not her own is indeed attested far back in history; in fact, archaeologists have discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen's wet nurse. In modern Europe and the United States, wet nursing persisted into the early 20th century, when bottles and formula rendered it