Breastfeeding & Culture

£22.95

Publisher: Demeter Press

ISBN: 9781772581553

Author	Ann Marie A. Short
Pub Date	02/09/2018

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For myriad reasons, breastfeeding is a fraught issue among mothers in the U.S. and other industrialized nations and breastfeeding advocacy in particular remains a source of contention for feminist scholars and activists. Breastfeeding raises many important concerns surrounding gendered embodiment reproductive rights and autonomy, essentializing discourses and the struggle against biology as destiny and public policies that have the potential to support or undermine women and mothers in particular in the workplace.