Joanna Wolfarth is an art historian. Previously visiting lecturer in Southeast Asian Art at SOAS, University of London, she now teaches History of Art at The Open University. Milk is her first book.
Compassionate, compelling and beautifully told, Milk is a
fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical
meanings of breastfeeding. Through her intricate, personal and
tender research, Wolfarth deftly explores the human complexities of
caring, nurturing and nourishing. A sublime book
*ELINOR CLEGHORN, author of UNWELL WOMEN*
A feminist blend of memoir and history . . . Wolfarth takes us on
an illuminating tour of shifting attitudes and practices . . . as a
cultural historian she is excellent at detailing how motherhood
changes her perspective of art . . . this is an important book:
however personal each mother's "journey" may seem, there are always
bigger forces at play
*THE SUNDAY TIMES*
Erudite, intimate and compelling, Milk is a long-overdue history of
humanity's first food
*LEAH HAZARD, author of HARD PUSHED*
The beauty of Wolfarth's storytelling is difficult to convey . . .
[Milk] is a story for us all
*BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE*
Milk is a fascinating book, a rigorous and intimate study of
something at once essential to life, and yet too often overlooked.
Wolfarth uses breastfeeding as a lens through which to examine and
critique the structures of motherhood, but it's also a text
suffused with love and care, and I felt equal parts enlightened and
comforted after reading it
*MIRANDA WARD, author of ADRIFT*
Sensitively drawn and full of insight, this is an intelligent and
inventive new approach to a subject that should matter to all
humans. Stunning
*JENNIE AGG, author of LIFE, ALMOST*
I adored Milk. It is such an open-hearted, tender, gorgeous book;
the way Wolfarth writes of mothers and milk so carefully crafted
and so caring in equal measure. Art and bodies are interwoven so
beautifully it becomes a dance; one that pays tribute to our
ancestors and our experience, both individual and collective. We
are asked in myriad ways what exactly it means to give sustenance,
to nurture, to give ourselves over to a small stranger we are
changed by forever; no matter how we fed them. An important,
non-judgmental and truly healing book; I am most grateful for it
indeed
*Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of THIN PLACES*
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