The Evil Symbolism of Milk

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Milk: A Local and Global History (2014) by Deborah Valenze
Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood (2023) by Anne Mendelson
Re-imagining Milk: Cultural and Biological Perspectives (2016) by Andrea S. Wiley
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A Psychoanalysis of Milk: The Case of Alfred Hitchcock by Matthew Beaumont (2021) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
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‘White Power Milk’: Milk, Dietary Racism, and the ‘Alt-Right’ by Vasile Stănescu (2018) https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent...
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Milk and Melancholy by Kenneth Hayes (2008)
I PUT A LIGHT IN THE MILK by Jeff Dolven (2017) https://jdolven.princeton.edu/wp-cont...
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The Monstrous Feminism: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed (2007) https://ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbith...
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0:00 - intro
3:27 - milk as innocence
14:33 - milk as whiteness
23:05 - milk as poison
32:47 - conclusion