Should all mothers breast-feed their children? This question remains controversial in the twenty-first century. In an interview with the newspaper Liberation in

Despite an ongoing propaganda campaign to encourage women to nurse, Frenchwomen continued to entrust their infants to wet nurses far longer than was the norm in

Civilizing Habits explores the life stories of three French women missionaries--Philippine Duchesne, Emilie de Vialar, and Anne-Marie Javouhey--who crossed boun

An innovative study revealing that folklore collections can shed new light on the lives of the socially marginalized.

An Ordinary Marriage is the story of the Chikhachevs, middling-income gentry landowners in nineteenth-century provincial Russia. In a seemingly strange contradi