Others' Milk: The Potential of Exceptional Breastfeeding

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 - an uncomfortable reality in the contemporary context of high-stakes motherhood. 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 - an uncomfortable reality in the contemporary context of high-stakes motherhood.

Autorentext

Wilson, Kristin J.

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
Acknowledgements
Appendix
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