Despite the fact that breastfeeding was a vital gesture in Roman times since milk substitutes endangered the life of infants, the occurrences of literary and visual representations of ordinary, domestic breastfeeding are very few. This article offers hypotheses concerning this dearth of representations, firstly postulating a real disinterest, related to male disgust of, or distance with, female physiological processes, and, secondly, a strategic disinterest, which may be accounted for by male envy of power and pleasure. Lastly, it investigates various male strategies of depreciation and appropriation of breastfeeding, and the subsequent female internalization of negative messages about it.

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罗马母乳喂养：控制和影响

尽管母乳替代品在罗马时代是一种至关重要的姿态，因为代乳品危及婴儿的生命，尽管如此，但普通家庭母乳喂养的文学和视觉表现却很少出现。这篇文章提供了关于缺乏表征的假设，首先假设真正的不感兴趣，与男性对女性生理过程的厌恶或疏远有关，其次，战略性的不感兴趣，这可能是由于男性对权力和快乐的嫉妒. 最后，它调查了男性贬低和占用母乳喂养的各种策略，以及随后女性对其负面信息的内化。