Book
Thorley, Virginia (2009). Mother to Mother: The history of the Queensland branch of the Australian Breastfeeding Association, 1969 - 2009. Australia: Australian Breastfeeding Association.
Book Chapters
Thorley, Virginia (2018). Induced lactation and relactation. Core curriculum for interdisciplinary lactation care. (pp. 303-315) edited by Suzanne Hetzel Campbell , Judith Lauwers, Rebecca Mannel and Becky Spencer. Burlington, MA, United States: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Thorley, Virginia (2013). Induced lactation and relactation. Core curriculum for lactation consultant practice. (pp. 675-700) edited by Rebecca Mannel, Patricia J. Martens and Marsha Walker. Burlington, MA, United States: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Conclusion: going forth from here. The 10th step and beyond: mother support for breastfeeding. (pp. 219-221) edited by Virginia Thorley and Melissa Clark Vickers. Amarillo, TX, United States: Hale Publishing.
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Sustainability: why good programs fail and what we need to know. The 10th step and beyond: Mother support for breastfeeding. (pp. 211-218) edited by Virginia Thorley and Melissa Clark Vickers. Amarillo, TX, United States: Hale Publishing.
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Mother support as part of the self-help and mutual aid movement: Historical overview. The 10th step and beyond: Mother support for breastfeeding. (pp. 35-43) edited by Virginia Thorley and Melissa Clark Vickers. Amarillo, TX, United States: Hale Publishing.
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Introduction: Mother support as step 10 of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. The 10th step and beyond: Mother support for breastfeeding. (pp. 13-22) edited by Virginia Thorley and Melissa Clark Vickers. Amarillo, TX, United States: Hale Publishing.
Thorley, Virginia (2011). Middle-class mothers as activists for change: The Australian Breastfeeding Association. The 21st century motherhood movement: Mothers speak out on why we need to change the world and how to do it. (pp. 219-232) edited by Andrea O’Reilly. Toronto, Canada: Demeter Press.
Thorley, V. and Worgan, R. (2008). Induced lactation and relactation. Core Curriculum of Lactation Consultant Practice. (pp. 569-593) edited by Rebecca Mannel, Patricia J. Martens and Marsha Walker. Sudbury, U.S.A.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Journal Articles
Sioda, Tomasz and Thorley, Virginia (2022). Infection, a hazard of wet-nursing: how beliefs about transmission historically have shaped protective measures. Journal of Human Lactation, 38 (3), 089033442210992-522. doi: 10.1177/08903344221099289
Haider, Rukhsana, Thorley, Virginia and Mihrshahi, Seema (2021). Improving complementary feeding practices through peer counselling in Bangladesh: Moving successfully from project to program mode. Breastfeeding Review, 29 (2), 27-40.
Thorley, Virginia (2021). Embodied mothering: Valuing breastfeeding in a neoliberal age. Breastfeeding Review, 29 (1), 7-13.
Haider, Rukhsana, Thorley, Virginia and Yourkavitch, Jennifer (2021). Breastfeeding practices after a counselling intervention for factory workers in Bangladesh. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 17 (2) e13113, e13113. doi: 10.1111/mcn.13113
Thorley, Virginia (2021). Conditions of boarded out babies of wet-nurses, colonial Australia. Journal of Human Lactation, 37 (2), 890334421994776-356. doi: 10.1177/0890334421994776
Sioda, Tomasz and Thorley, Virginia (2020). ‘Unfortunate creatures’: The hazards of syphilis in wet-nursing. Medycyna Nowożytna, 26 (2), 21-56. doi: 10.4467/12311960mn.20.011.13353
Haider, Rukhsana and Thorley, Virginia (2019). Supporting exclusive breastfeeding among factory workers and their unemployed neighbors: Peer counseling in Bangladesh. Journal of Human Lactation, 36 (3), 089033441987122-425. doi: 10.1177/0890334419871229
Sioda, Tomasz and Thorley, Virginia (2019). Human milk as a medicine historically. Pharmaceutical Historian, 49 (1), 16-23.
Thorley, Virginia (2019). Is breastfeeding ‘normal’? Using the right language for breastfeeding. Midwifery, 69, 39-44. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2018.10.015
Thorley, Virginia (2018). Review of Cecilia Tomori, Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist, E.A. Quinn (eds). Breastfeeding: Annthropological approaches. Breastfeeding Review, 26 (3)
Thorley, Virginia (2018). Review of Governments push infant formula. Breastfeeding Review, 26 (2), 44-45.
Thorley, Virginia (2018). The trend towards breastmilk-feeding: should we be concerned?. Breastfeeding Review, 26 (1), 7-10.
Thorley, Virginia (2018). What is "normal" and what is an "intervention"? Using the right language for breastfeeding. Essence, 52 (1), 10-13.
Thorley, Virginia (2017). Modes of breastfeeding mother support after hospital discharge. Breastfeeding Review, 25 (2), 7-11.
Thorley, Virginia and Sioda, Tomasz (2016). Selection criteria for wet-nurses: Ancient recommendations that survived across time. Breastfeeding Review, 24 (3), 13-24.
Thorley, Virginia (2016). Milk kinship and implications for human milk banking: a review. Women's Health Bulletin, 3 (3). doi: 10.17795/whb-36897
Thorley, Virginia (2016). 'School Milk' in the Context of the Australian Dairy Industry. Rural History, 27 (1), 103-117. doi: 10.1017/S0956793315000187
Thorley, Virginia (2015). A mother, yet not ‘mother’: the occupation of wet-nursing. Journal of Family Studies, 21 (3), 305-323. doi: 10.1080/13229400.2015.1108993
Thorley, Virginia (2015). The Tenth Step of the BFHI: what midwives need to know about optimal support for mothers, post-discharge. Midwifery, 31 (9), 829-833. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2015.06.006
Thorley, Virginia (2015). Free Supplies and the Appearance of Endorsement: Distribution of Tobacco to Soldiers and Artificial Infant Formula to New Mothers. Journal of Human Lactation, 31 (2), 213-215. doi: 10.1177/0890334414567776
Thorley, Virginia (2015). Human milk in the second year and beyond. Breastfeeding Communique, 24.
Thorley, Virginia (2014). Milk siblingship, religious and secular: history, applications, and implications for practice. Women and Birth, 27 (4), e16-e19. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2014.09.003
Thorley, Virginia (2014). ‘There is absolutely NO SUBSTITUTE for fresh milk’: dairy marketing in Australia, twentieth century. International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2 (2), 1-14.
Thorley, Virginia (2014). Assumptions and advice: mothers and Queensland well-baby clinics. A review. Breastfeeding Review, 22 (1), 23-30.
Thorley, Virginia (2014). Australian school milk schemes to 1974: for the benefit of whom?. Health and History, 16 (2), 63-86. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.16.2.0063
Thorley, Virginia (2014). Ribbens McCarthy, J., Doolittle, M., and Day Sclater, S. (2012) Understanding Family Meanings: A Reflective Text. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 5 (1), 335-336.
Thorley, Virginia (2013). The professionalising of breast feeding—where are we a decade on?. Midwifery, 29 (5), e30-e31. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2012.11.008
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Accounts of infant-feeding advice received by mothers: Queensland, Australia, 1945-1965. Nursing Reports, 2 (1), e12-1-e12-9. doi: 10.4081/nursrep.2012.e12
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Influences on Australian breastfeeding practice. Women and Birth, 25 (3), e44.1-e44.1. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2011.09.004
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Human milk use in Australian hospitals, 1949-1985. Breastfeeding Review, 20 (2), 13-23.
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Human milk banking in the volunteer sector: Policy development and actuality in 1970s Australia. Midwifery, 28 (2), 247-251. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2011.02.001
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Human milk banking to 1985. Breastfeeding Review, 20 (1), 17-23.
Thorley, Virginia (2012). Mothers' experiences of sharing breastfeeding or breastmilk, part 2: The early 21st century. Nursing Reports, 2 (1), 4-12. doi: 10.4081/nursrep.2012.e2
Thorley, Virginia (2011). The dilemma of breastmilk feeding. Breastfeeding Review, 19 (1), 5-7.
Thorley, Virginia (2009). Mothers' experiences of sharing breastfeeding or breastmilk co-feeding in Australia 1978-2008. Breastfeeding Review, 17 (1), 9-18.
Thorley, Virginia (2009). Guidelines to improve maternity practices and support breast-feeding are readily available. Southern Medical Journal, 102 (2), 222-223. doi: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181898802
Thorley, Virginia (2008). Sharing breastmilk: Wet nursing, cross-feeding and milk donations. Breastfeeding Review: Journal of The Australian Breastfeeding Association, 16 (1), 25-29.
Virginia Thorley (2008). Online Materials Provided to Public by Mother-Support Groups in Breastfeeding: Observations on Readability and Access. International Journal of Self Help and Self Care, 4 (1-2), 69-77. doi: 10.2190/sh.4.1-2.f
Thorley, V. (2008). Breasts for hire and shared breastfeeding: Wet nursing and cross feeding in Australia, 1900-2000. Health and History: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 10 (1), 88-109. doi: 10.2307/40111595
Thorley, V. G. (2006). Readability of selected breastfeeding information for mothers: Early twenty-first centure. Birth Issues, 15 (2), 47-53.
Thorley, Virginia (2005). Book Review: Protecting Infants Through Human Milk: Advancing the Scientific Evidence. Journal of Human Lactation, 21 (4), 472-472. doi: 10.1177/089033440502100417
Thorley, V. G. (2005). Latch and the fear response: Overcoming an obstacle to successful breastfeeding. Breastfeeding Review, 13 (1), 9-11.
Thorley, V. G. (2005). Breast hypoplasia and breastfeeding: A case history. Breastfeeding Review, 13 (2), 13-16.
Thorley, V. G. (2005). Cup-feeding in the maternity unit: Commentary. Birth Issues, 14 (1), 13-17.
Thorley, Virginia (2005). Mothers' behavior that undermines breastfeeding latch: The fear response. Journal of Human Lactation, 21 (3), 243-244. doi: 10.1177/0890334405278493
Thorley, V. G. (2005). Review of "No one right way": A handbook for parents - nurturing your new baby in the first three months of life by R Lipsett. Journal of Human Lactation, 21 (3), 268-268. doi: 10.1177/089033440502100324
Thorley, Virginia (2004). Book Review: The Nursing Mother's Herbal. Journal of Human Lactation, 20 (3), 346-347. doi: 10.1177/089033440402000315
Thorley, Virginia (2004). Book Review: Birthing: Choices you Have to Create the Best Birth Experience for You and Your Child. Journal of Human Lactation, 20 (2), 247-247. doi: 10.1177/0890334404202025
Thorley, V. G. (2004). Readability of selected breastfeeding information for mothers: Late 20th century. Birth Issues, 13 (1), 11-17.
Thorley, Virginia (2004). Relactation. Breastfeeding Review, 12 (3), 27-27.
Thorley, V. G. (2004). Reading and understanding research for evidence-based practice. I L C A Globe, web based, 1-13.
Thorley, V. G. (2003). Commercial interests and advice on infant feeding: Marketing to mothers in postwar Queensland. Heath and History: Journal of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, 5 (1), 65-89. doi: 10.2307/40111500
Thorley, V. G. (2003). Printed advice on initiating and maintaining breastfeeding in mid-20th-century Queensland. Journal of Human Lactation, 19 (1), 77-89. doi: 10.1177/0890334402239738
Thorley, V. G. (2003). 'Medical mother' Lady Cilento's journalism. Birth Issues, 12 (1/2), 19-23.
Thorley, Virginia (2002). Book Review: Holding Corporations Accountable: Corporate Conduct, International Codes, and Citizen Action. Journal of Human Lactation, 18 (4), 401-402. doi: 10.1177/089033440201800418
Thorley, Virginia and Mannel, Becky (2002). Association News. Journal of Human Lactation, 18 (4), 397-398. doi: 10.1177/089033402237916
Thorley, Virginia (2002). Book Review: Selling Out Mothers and Babies: Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes in the United States. Journal of Human Lactation, 18 (3), 284-284. doi: 10.1177/089033440201800314
Spangler, Amy and Thorley, Virginia (2002). Association News. Journal of Human Lactation, 18 (3), 280-281. doi: 10.1177/089033440201800312
Thorley, Virginia and Garrett, Anne (2002). Association News. Journal of Human Lactation, 18 (2), 178-179. doi: 10.1177/089033440201800211
Thorley, Virginia (2002). Association News. Journal of Human Lactation, 18 (1), 69-70. doi: 10.1177/089033440201800113
Thorley, Virginia G. (2002). Maternal dietary advice as an artifact of time and culture: Post-world war II Queensland, Australia. Breastfeeding Review, 10 (1), 25-29.
Thorley, V. (2001). Initiating breastfeeding in postwar Queensland. Breastfeeding Review, 9 (3), 21-26.
Thorley, Virginia (2001). Association News. Journal of Human Lactation, 17 (4), 348-349. doi: 10.1177/089033440101700409
Thorley, Virginia (2001). Website Review: International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. Journal of Human Lactation, 17 (3), 270-270. doi: 10.1177/089033440101700323
Thorley, Virginia (2001). Book Review: Management of the Child With a Serious Infection or Severe Malnutrition. Journal of Human Lactation, 17 (2), 172-173. doi: 10.1177/089033440101700221
Thorley, Virginia (2001). Television programmes could market breast feeding. British Medical Journal, 322 (7290), 863-863. doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.863
Thorley, V. (2001). Softly, softly: How the Mothercraft Association of Queensland coexisted with government policy, 1931-1961. Health and History, 3 (2), 80-93. doi: 10.2307/40111406
Thorley, V. (2001). Midwives, trainees and mothers: Maternity hospital conditions in postwar Queensland. Birth Issues, 10 (3/4), 101-106.
Thorley, Virginia (2001). Volunteerism and government policy in infant welfare in Queensland, Australia, 1931-1961: Working round the ban. International Journal of Self-Help and Self-Care, 1 (4), 345-352. doi: 10.2190/63g9-h26e-ew0d-c70g
Thorley, Virginia (2000). Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature (1650-1865). Journal of Human Lactation, 16 (3), 248-249. doi: 10.1177/089033440001600317
Thorley, Virginia (2000). Headaches in breastfeeding women. Birth Issues, 9 (3), 85-88.
Thorley, Virginia (2000). Impetigo on the nipple and areola. Breastfeeding Review, 8 (2), 25-26.
Thorley, V. (2000). Complementary and competing roles of volunteers and professionals in the breastfeeding field. International Journal of Self Help and Self Care, 1 (2), 131-179.
Thorley, Virginia (1999). Concerns About Artificial Nipple Dependence. Journal of Human Lactation, 15 (3), 207-207. doi: 10.1177/089033449901500308
Thorley, Virginia (1999). Unpaid Work. Journal of Human Lactation, 15 (2), 97-97. doi: 10.1177/089033449901500203
Thorley, Virginia (1999). Fee Structures and Bases. Journal of Human Lactation, 15 (2), 142-142. doi: 10.1177/089033449901500213
Thorley, Virginia (1999). Weight gain as an artifact of times and culture. Journal of Human Lactation, 15 (1), 8-8. doi: 10.1177/089033449901500106
Thorley, Virginia (1999). Complementary and Competing Roles of Volunteers and Professionals in the Breastfeeding Field. International Journal of Self Help and Self Care, 1 (2), 171-179. doi: 10.2190/j34g-ybbr-f4kl-0gw0
Thorley, Virginia (1998). Book Review: Tongue Tie: From Confusion to Clarity: A Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ankyloglossia. Journal of Human Lactation, 14 (4), 344-345. doi: 10.1177/089033449801400432
Thorley, Virginia (1997). Cup feeding: problems created by incorrect use. Journal of Human Lactation, 13 (1), 54-55. doi: 10.1177/089033449701300118
Thorley, Virginia (1997). Lactational Headache: A Lactation Consultant's Diary. Journal of Human Lactation, 13 (1), 51-53. doi: 10.1177/089033449701300117
Thorley, Virginia (1997). The Women's Wheel of Life: Thirteen Archetypes of Woman at Her Fullest Power. Journal of Human Lactation, 13 (1), 79-79. doi: 10.1177/089033449701300132
Thorley Phillips, Virginia (1995). Two More Indications of Candida. Journal of Human Lactation, 11 (4), 262-262. doi: 10.1177/089033449501100406
Thorley Phillips, Virginia (1994). To the Editor:. Birth, 21 (4), 235-235. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1994.tb00539.x
Thorley Phillips, Virginia (1994). Another Example of LC "Endorsement" Out of Context. Journal of Human Lactation, 10 (3), 156-156. doi: 10.1177/089033449401000309
Thorley Phillips, Virginia (1994). Improving Breastfeeding Attachment of a Reluctant Infant by Encouraging Licking. Journal of Human Lactation, 10 (3), 153-154. doi: 10.1177/089033449401000304
Thorley Phillips, Virginia (1994). To the Editor. Birth, 21 (2), 119-120. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1994.tb00251.x
Thorley Phillips, Virginia (1994). Birth As An American Rite of Passage. Journal of Human Lactation, 10 (1), 55-55. doi: 10.1177/089033449401000137
Phillips, Virginia (1994). Last-Resort Visits and Other Client Decisions. Journal of Human Lactation, 10 (1), 3-3. doi: 10.1177/089033449401000104
Phillips, Virginia (1993). Birth Traditions and Modern Pregnancy Care. Journal of Human Lactation, 9 (4), 269-269. doi: 10.1177/089033449300900435
Phillips, Virginia (1993). Appropriate Infant Feeding Terminology. Journal of Human Lactation, 9 (4), 218-219. doi: 10.1177/089033449300900409
Phillips, Virginia (1993). Is Gentian Violet Safe?. Journal of Human Lactation, 9 (1), 7-8. doi: 10.1177/089033449300900110
Phillips, Virginia (1993). Assessing Satiation in the Bottle-fed Baby. Journal of Human Lactation, 9 (1), 10-10. doi: 10.1177/089033449300900119
Phillips, Virginia (1992). Correcting faulty suck: tongue protrusion and the breastfed infant. Medical Journal of Australia, 156 (7), 508-508.
Phillips, Virginia (1992). Queen Anne's "seventeen disappointments". Medical Journal of Australia, 156 (5), 341-342.
Phillips, Virginia (1992). Language, culture identity and empowerment in the dominant culture. Aboriginal Child at School, 20 (2), 25-30.
Phillips V. (1991). Evaluation of a voluntary in-service on breastfeeding.. Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD, 7 (5), 246-247.
Phillips, Virginia (1990). The Aboriginal and Islander student in the classroom. The Aboriginal Child at School, 18 (4), 36-46.
Phillips, Virginia (1985). Facilities for working mothers to breastfeed children. Breastfeeding Review, 1 (7), 28-30.
Phillips, Virginia (1983). NMAA as a self-help organisation. Breastfeeding Review, 1 (2), 37-39.
Phillips, Virginia (1978). 'Brought Up by Hand': Dickens's Pip, Little Paul Dombey and Oliver Twist. Dickensian, 74 (386), 144-147.
Phillips, Virginia (1978). Children in early Victorian England - Infant-feeding in literature and society, 1837-1857. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and Environmental Child Health, 24 (4), 158-166. doi: 10.1093/tropej/24.4.158
Conference Papers
Thorley, Virginia (2013). Breastmilk feeding: from necessity for a few to life choice. Implications and ethics. ILCA 2013: International Lactation Consultant Association Conference & Annual Meeting, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 25-28 July, 2013.
Thorley, V. (2001). Past, present and future: Moving from the authority of the guru to evidence-based practice. International Breastfeeding Conference, Brisbane, 13-15 September. Glen Iris, Victoria: Australian Breastfeeding Association.
Theses
Thorley, Virginia (2007). Australian mothers' decisions about infant feeding : an historical analysis of public health advice, marketing, and other factors influencing their choices, 1900-2000. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/efaabad
Thorley, Virginia (2000). Feeding their babies : Infant feeding advice received by Queensland women in the postwar period, 1945-1965. M.A. Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/190068