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). 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 (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). 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). 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 (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). Assumptions and advice: mothers and Queensland well-baby clinics. A review. Breastfeeding Review, 22 (1), 23-30.
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). 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.
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
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. 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). 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, V. G. (2005). Cup-feeding in the maternity unit: Commentary. Birth Issues, 14 (1), 13-17.
Thorley, V. G. (2005). Breast hypoplasia and breastfeeding: A case history. Breastfeeding Review, 13 (2), 13-16.
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). Latch and the fear response: Overcoming an obstacle to successful breastfeeding. Breastfeeding Review, 13 (1), 9-11.
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, V. G. (2004). Reading and understanding research for evidence-based practice. I L C A Globe, web based, 1-13.
Thorley, Virginia (2004). Relactation. Breastfeeding Review, 12 (3), 27-27.
Thorley, V. G. (2003). 'Medical mother' Lady Cilento's journalism. Birth Issues, 12 (1/2), 19-23.
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, Virginia and Mannel, Becky (2002). Association News. Journal of Human Lactation, 18 (4), 397-398. doi: 10.1177/089033402237916
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
Spangler, Amy and Thorley, Virginia (2002). Association News. Journal of Human Lactation, 18 (3), 280-281. doi: 10.1177/089033440201800312
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
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, Virginia (2001). Association News. Journal of Human Lactation, 17 (4), 348-349. doi: 10.1177/089033440101700409
Thorley, V. (2001). Initiating breastfeeding in postwar Queensland. Breastfeeding Review, 9 (3), 21-26.
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). 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, 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, Virginia (2000). Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature (1650-1865). Journal of Human Lactation, 16 (3), 248-249. doi: 10.1177/089033440001600317
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 (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, 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). 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, Virginia (1997). Lactational Headache: A Lactation Consultant's Diary. Journal of Human Lactation, 13 (1), 51-53. doi: 10.1177/089033449701300117
Thorley, Virginia (1997). Cup feeding: problems created by incorrect use. Journal of Human Lactation, 13 (1), 54-55. doi: 10.1177/089033449701300118
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). 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). Another Example of LC "Endorsement" Out of Context. Journal of Human Lactation, 10 (3), 156-156. doi: 10.1177/089033449401000309
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). Appropriate Infant Feeding Terminology. Journal of Human Lactation, 9 (4), 218-219. doi: 10.1177/089033449300900409
Phillips, Virginia (1993). Birth Traditions and Modern Pregnancy Care. Journal of Human Lactation, 9 (4), 269-269. doi: 10.1177/089033449300900435
Phillips, Virginia (1993). Assessing Satiation in the Bottle-fed Baby. Journal of Human Lactation, 9 (1), 10-10. doi: 10.1177/089033449300900119
Phillips, Virginia (1993). Is Gentian Violet Safe?. Journal of Human Lactation, 9 (1), 7-8. doi: 10.1177/089033449300900110
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
Virginia Thorley (2007). Australian mothers' decisions about infant feeding: an historical analysis of public health advice, marketing, and other factors influencing their choices.. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, The University of Queensland.
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.