At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807021415)

In our ironic, "postfeminist" age few experiences inspire the kind of passions that breastfeeding does. For advocates, breastfeeding is both the only way to supply babies with proper nutrition and the "bond" that cements the mother/child relationship. Mother's milk remains "natural" in a world of genetically modified produce and corporate health care. But is it a realistic option for all women? And can a well-intentioned insistence on the necessity of breastfeeding become just another way to cast some women as bad mothers?

Linda M. Blum is author of Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement. She teaches sociology and women's studies at the University of New Hampshire, and wrote this book while a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Author: Linda Blum
ISBN-10: 0807021415
ISBN-13: 9780807021415
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2000
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.00w x 0.36d