Others' Milk

Klappentext Breastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others' Milk illustrate just how messy and challenging and unpredictable it can be. Zusammenfassung Breastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork! now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others' Milk illustrate just how messy and challenging and unpredictable it can be.

Autorentext

Kristin J. Wilson is chair of the anthropology department at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. She is the author of Not Trying: Infertility, Childlessness, and Ambivalence.

Inhalt

1 Nursing in Public
2 Cleavages: Negotiating Challenges
3 The Mother of Invention: Persisting with Exceptional Breastfeeding
4 Milking the System: Expressing the Politics of Breastfeeding
5 Busting Binaries: Embodying Otherhood and Motherhood
6 Fluidity of the family: Making Kin
7 “Outpouring of support”: Embodied solidarity
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About the Author