At the breast : ideologies of breastfeeding and motherhood in the contemporary United States / Linda M. Blum.
"Blum reveals that a discussion about the seemingly private and individual practice of breastfeeding is really a larger conversation about sexuality, class, race, and the control and construction of maternal bodies. Interviewing three distinct groups of women, she discovers that the desirabilit...
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- "Breast is best"
- From $acred [i.e. : sacred] to disembodied motherhood: breastfeeding with the experts and the state
- "Mother to mother" in La Leche League
- "To educate and persuade": white working-class, respectable mothers
- "To take their own independence": African-American working-class mothers
- Twenty-first-century virtual mothers or rounded mothers?
- Statement of Ms. Monica Johnson for the University of Michigan, Women of Color Task Force
- Methodology
- Mass circulation magazine articles, 1963-1993.