Maternal breastfeeding in XIX century literature. Faustina Sáez de Melgar

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https://doi.org/10.35669/revistadecomunicacionysalud.2019.9(2).1-15

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maternal breastfeeding; literature; Faustina Sáez de Melgar; XIX century novels; female journals XIX century; wetnurses; childhood.

Abstract

Maternal breastfeeding has been considered in all times as an early and essential link between mother and child. Wetnurses are, in many cases, a substitute of mothers who cared more about their social life than about their duties with their baby.  Besides, this writer stresses that this relationship may put the baby's life at risk and may be the cause of acquisition of vices and diseases. To avoid the negative consequences of the detachment from mothers, Faustina Sáez de Melgar (Villamanrique de Tajo 1834 - 1985) underlines this initial bound, as many other female authors in the XIX century did too, in her journalistic articles as well as in her novels where the role of mother is associated to educating their children personally.  Maternal breastfeeding, as she states in so many quotations in her articles and novels, is one of her concerns in her literary production.

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Mª Isabel Abradelo de Usera , Universidad CEU San Pablo

Doctora en Filología y licenciada en Filología Hispánica y en Filología Inglesa. Ha sido Secretaria Académica (1999-2003) y vicedecana (2006-2015) de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Comunicación. De 2105 hasta 2019 ha sido vicerrectora de Estudiantes de la Universidad CEU San Pablo. Ha impartido en numerosos cursos de formación del profesorado. Es directora del Club Chesterton, que organiza congresos internacionales de carácter anual sobre Chesterton (2012), Lewis y Tolkien (2014), Newman (2015), Jane Austen (2016), la novela de CEU Ediciones 2017; detectives (2017), la novela gótica (2018). Ha coordinado las publicaciones: Detectives y métodos en la novela policial. Mª Isabel Abradelo de Usera, Pablo Gutiérrez Carreras e Ignacio Armada, coordinatodres. Ediciones CEU 2019; By a Lady, Estudios sobre Jane Austen. Mª Isabel Abradelo y Pablo Gutiérrez Coords. JRR Tolkien.El árbol de las historias. Pablo Gutiérrez Carreras, Mª Isabel Abradelo de Usera, Ignacio Armada Manrique (Coords.) Madrid, CEU Ediciones 2015; De leones y de hombres: Estudios sobre C.S. Lewis. Pablo Gutiérrez Carreras, Mª Isabel Abradelo de Usera e Ignacio Armada Manrique (Coords.) Madrid, CEU Ediciones 2014; Chesterton de pie. Mª Isabel Abradelo de Usera y Pablo Gutiérrez Carreras, eds. CEU Publicaciones, 2012. 2005; Introducción y edición y notas de Corazones sin Rumbo, de Pedro Mata, Castalia, Colección Clásicos Madrileños, ISBN 84-7039-827-X, 1999.

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2019-12-01

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Abradelo de Usera , M. I. . (2019). Maternal breastfeeding in XIX century literature. Faustina Sáez de Melgar. Revista De Comunicación Y Salud, 9(2), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.35669/revistadecomunicacionysalud.2019.9(2).1-15

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