Gestures of Connection: Victorian Technologies of Photography and Visible Mothering.
Victorian "hidden mother" photographs are portraits of babies in which adult figures are draped with textiles, blocked with furniture, tucked behind a mat, or otherwise (often ineffectively) obscured. Fascination with them habitually turns on their presumed erasure of nineteenth-century women's labo...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 193 - 226 |
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Indiana University Press
Winter2023
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