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Prophecy Coles: The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development

Prophecy Coles: The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant... BOOK REVIEWS 209 These points notwithstanding, however, what Friedman has offered us here is a perceptive, timely, and generally well-balanced account of Fromm that will con- tribute greatly to what appears to be an increasing international return to Fromm in social theory circles—a revival that has the potential to contribute much to psycho- analysis’s remembering of its sometimes lost history. Kieran Durkin Ph.D. 31 Underwood Street, Glasgow, G41 8EP, UK e-mail: kieran.durkin@glasgow.ac.uk DOI:10.1057/ajp.2016.3 The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development, by Prophecy Coles, Routledge, London, 2015, 136 pp. Having just put together an edited volume on the contemporary patterns of mothering in North America (Akhtar, 2016), I found it refreshing to pick up Prophecy Coles’ The Shadow of the Second Mother, for it is a book replete with historical information regarding nannies and wet nurses going back to early Roman times. The fi rst two chapters of her book focus upon the deployment of wet nurses, either for the offspring of the highly-privileged or for babies abandoned by unwed mothers, many of whom were prostitutes. With painstaking detail, Coles traces the changing societal attitudes about abandoned infants, about wet nurses, about the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Prophecy Coles: The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 76 (2) – May 19, 2016

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1057/ajp.2016.1
pmid
27194278
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Abstract

BOOK REVIEWS 209 These points notwithstanding, however, what Friedman has offered us here is a perceptive, timely, and generally well-balanced account of Fromm that will con- tribute greatly to what appears to be an increasing international return to Fromm in social theory circles—a revival that has the potential to contribute much to psycho- analysis’s remembering of its sometimes lost history. Kieran Durkin Ph.D. 31 Underwood Street, Glasgow, G41 8EP, UK e-mail: kieran.durkin@glasgow.ac.uk DOI:10.1057/ajp.2016.3 The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development, by Prophecy Coles, Routledge, London, 2015, 136 pp. Having just put together an edited volume on the contemporary patterns of mothering in North America (Akhtar, 2016), I found it refreshing to pick up Prophecy Coles’ The Shadow of the Second Mother, for it is a book replete with historical information regarding nannies and wet nurses going back to early Roman times. The fi rst two chapters of her book focus upon the deployment of wet nurses, either for the offspring of the highly-privileged or for babies abandoned by unwed mothers, many of whom were prostitutes. With painstaking detail, Coles traces the changing societal attitudes about abandoned infants, about wet nurses, about the

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: May 19, 2016

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