Mother's Milk examines why nursing a baby is an ideologically charged experience in contemporary culture. Drawing upon medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature, and an intimate knowledge of breastfeeding itself, Bernice Hausman demonstrates what is at stake in mothers' infant feeding choices--economically, socially, and in terms of women's rights. Breastfeeding controversies, she argues, reveal social tensions around the meaning of women's bodies, the authority of science, and the value of maternity in American culture. A provocative and multi-faceted work, Mother's Milk will be of interest to anyone concerned with the politics of women's embodiment.
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Hausman's book is in the best tradition of cultural studies, readings of different sorts of cultural texts to make a series of important points about the issue of breastfeeding in the current American cultural climate.
–Lillian S. Robinson, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University
–Lillian S. Robinson, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University
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Bernice L. Hausman is Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where she also teaches for the Women's Studies Program. She is the author of Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender and writes about medicine, gender theory, and the body. She lives in Blacksburg, VA.
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Textual analysis (not necessarily applied to what we immediately think of as texts) can be tough going at times, but Hausman is worth doing a little extra work to get through. Early on, she mentions how common in her experience it had been to meet women who identified as feminists, who had had children and breastfed them, and who had vigourously ambivalent feelings about La Leche League. Since what I read about LLL caused me to steer completely clear of them (and, to be fair, I have equal disgust for second wave feminism's attitude to breastfeeding in particular, and parenting in general), this book was a fascinating window into a world I had not had the courage to explore directly.
I have benefitted greatly from the work of LLL. I have a lot of friends who breastfed, in part, because of their activism, and those friends were my support. And I've benefitted hugely from second wave feminism. Nice to see someone doing the hard work of reconciling these two, and showing some possibilities for a path forward to a better world for the children who are yet to be born.
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Exellent book!,
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A must-read for any woman. Hausman's book is thorough and fascinating. A great read, and a great look at breastfeeding from a cultural perspective.
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Tabitha Warlond, nineteen years old, African American, and a single mother living with her mother (both of whom were on public assistance) was convicted of negligently causing the death of her seven-week-old son Tyler, who died of starvation in august 1997. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female biologic role, breastfeeding advocacy, breastfeeding advocates, infant care guides, concerning breastfeeding, insufficient milk syndrome, breastfeeding doctor, maternal embodiment, breastfeeding management, maternal nursing, breastfeeding itself, promoting breastfeeding, scientific motherhood, breastfeeding initiation, breastfeeding failure, infant feeding method, infant feeding decisions, psychosexual behavior, breastfeeding promotion, breastfeeding education, breastfeeding rates, maternal sexuality, maternal practice, maternal depletion, health activism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Van Esterik, Tabitha Walrond, Linda Blum, Third World, Katherine Dettwyler, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Ruth Lawrence, Mead Johnson, American Academy of Pediatrics, Joan Williams, Kung San, Rima Apple, Chicago Hope, First World, Gabrielle Palmer, Jules Law, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Vanessa Maher, Detective Briscoe, Detective Green, Lauri Umansky, Mother Nature, Niles Newton New!
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Tabitha Warlond, nineteen years old, African American, and a single mother living with her mother (both of whom were on public assistance) was convicted of negligently causing the death of her seven-week-old son Tyler, who died of starvation in august 1997. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female biologic role, breastfeeding advocacy, breastfeeding advocates, infant care guides, concerning breastfeeding, insufficient milk syndrome, breastfeeding doctor, maternal embodiment, breastfeeding management, maternal nursing, breastfeeding itself, promoting breastfeeding, scientific motherhood, breastfeeding initiation, breastfeeding failure, infant feeding method, infant feeding decisions, psychosexual behavior, breastfeeding promotion, breastfeeding education, breastfeeding rates, maternal sexuality, maternal practice, maternal depletion, health activism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Van Esterik, Tabitha Walrond, Linda Blum, Third World, Katherine Dettwyler, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Ruth Lawrence, Mead Johnson, American Academy of Pediatrics, Joan Williams, Kung San, Rima Apple, Chicago Hope, First World, Gabrielle Palmer, Jules Law, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Vanessa Maher, Detective Briscoe, Detective Green, Lauri Umansky, Mother Nature, Niles Newton New!
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- The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding: Sixth Revised Edition by Gwen Gotsch on 11 pages
- The Politics of Breastfeeding (Issues in Women's Health series) by Gabrielle Palmer on 6 pages
- Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 2 by Benjamin Spock on 6 pages
- Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession, 6e (Breastfeeding (Lawrence)) by Ruth A. Lawrence on 5 pages
- Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy by Penny Van Esterik on 5 pages
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