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Feminism, breasts and breast-feeding

By:

Carter, P

Publication details: Basingstoke Macmillan Press 1995Description: 266p.,refs.; Rec: AnnaISBN:

0333623118

Subject(s):

Contents:

The great breast-feeding question; a tidal wave of good advice; infant feeding in women's lives; public space and private; breast-feeding, sex and bodies; ""she said the baby belonged to the state"" - health professionals and mothering; control and resistance in infant feeding regimes; feminism and infant feeding - theory and policy.

Summary: PaperbackSummary: This volume uses a feminist approach to examine the vast amount of material on breast-feeding. Baby milk manufacture is usually seen as the sole cause of the decline in breast-feeding. Using interviews with women, the author looks at other dimensions: the sexualization of breasts; the conditions under which the infant feeding takes place and professional interventions into mothering. Policy documents and popular breast-feeding books are shown to be preoccupied with getting women to do what they deem natural rather than with women's real needs.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves	WS 125 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		007900

Paperback

This volume uses a feminist approach to examine the vast amount of material on breast-feeding. Baby milk manufacture is usually seen as the sole cause of the decline in breast-feeding. Using interviews with women, the author looks at other dimensions: the sexualization of breasts; the conditions under which the infant feeding takes place and professional interventions into mothering. Policy documents and popular breast-feeding books are shown to be preoccupied with getting women to do what they deem natural rather than with women's real needs.

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