Mother's Milk
Mother's Milk

Author: Bernice L. Hausman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1135208271

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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.

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Author: La Leche League International

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2010-07-13

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 0345518446

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The revised go-to resource on breastfeeding that mothers have relied on for generations! La Leche League has for many years set the standard for supporting families in the art of breastfeeding. This new edition brings that support to today’s parents, with up-to-date information, new illustrations, and stories from mothers, fathers, and grandparents around the world sharing their own experiences. What’s inside? • Why breastfeeding matters • Getting started—feeding cues and nursing positions • Life with your breastfed baby • Managing common challenges—new research • Going back to work—expressing and storing your milk • Sleep (and how to get more of it), starting family foods, and weaning La Leche League is here to help you meet your breastfeeding goals, whether you’re planning to breastfeed for a few weeks or a few years. This book puts information at your fingertips, ready to help you when you need support at any point on your breastfeeding journey.

Lactivism
Lactivism

Author: Courtney Jung

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0465061656

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Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given rise Is breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been greatly exaggerated. New moms are pressured by doctors, health officials, and friends to avoid the bottle at all costs-often at the expense of their jobs, their pocketbooks, and their well-being. In Lactivism, political scientist Courtney Jung offers the most deeply researched and far-reaching critique of breastfeeding advocacy to date. Drawing on her own experience as a devoted mother who breastfed her two children and her expertise as a social scientist, Jung investigates the benefits of breastfeeding and asks why so many people across the political spectrum are passionately invested in promoting it, even as its health benefits have been persuasively challenged. What emerges is an eye-opening story about class and race in America, the big business of breastfeeding, and the fraught politics of contemporary motherhood.

Militant Lactivism?
Militant Lactivism?

Author: Charlotte Faircloth

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0857457594

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Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a period of several years, as part of an 'attachment parenting' philosophy. These mothers talk about their decision to continue breastfeeding as 'the natural thing to do': 'evolutionarily appropriate', 'scientifically best' and 'what feels right in their hearts'. Through a theoretical focus on knowledge claims and accountability, the author frames these accounts within a wider context of 'intensive parenting', arguing that parenting practices – infant feeding in particular – have become a highly moralized affair for mothers, practices which they feel are a critical aspect of their 'identity work'. The book investigates why, how and with what implications some of these mothers describe themselves as 'militant lactivists' and reflects on wider parenting culture in the UK and France. Discussing gender, feminism and activism, this study contributes to kinship and family studies by exploring how relatedness is enacted in conjunction to constructions of the self.

Back to the Breast
Back to the Breast

Author: Jessica Martucci

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-11-20

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 022628817X

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After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present. While it would be easy to see this reemergence as simply part of the naturalism movement of the ’70s, Jessica Martucci reveals here that the true story is more complicated. Despite the widespread acceptance and even advocacy of formula feeding by many in the medical establishment throughout the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, a small but vocal minority of mothers, drawing upon emerging scientific and cultural ideas about maternal instinct, infant development, and connections between the body and mind, pushed back against both hospital policies and cultural norms by breastfeeding their children. As Martucci shows, their choices helped ideologically root a “back to the breast” movement within segments of the middle-class, college-educated population as early as the 1950s. That movement—in which the personal and political were inextricably linked—effectively challenged midcentury norms of sexuality, gender, and consumption, and articulated early environmental concerns about chemical and nuclear contamination of foods, bodies, and breast milk. In its groundbreaking chronicle of the breastfeeding movement, Back to the Breast provides a welcome and vital account of what it has meant, and what it means today, to breastfeed in modern America.

Beyond Health, Beyond Choice
Beyond Health, Beyond Choice

Author: Paige Hall Smith

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2012-08-15

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0813553164

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Current public health promotion of breastfeeding relies heavily on health messaging and individual behavior change. Women are told that “breast is best” but too little serious attention is given to addressing the many social, economic, and political factors that combine to limit women’s real choice to breastfeed beyond a few days or weeks. The result: women’s, infants’, and public health interests are undermined. Beyond Health, Beyond Choice examines how feminist perspectives can inform public health support for breastfeeding. Written by authors from diverse disciplines, perspectives, and countries, this collection of essays is arranged thematically and considers breastfeeding in relation to public health and health care; work and family; embodiment (specifically breastfeeding in public); economic and ethnic factors; guilt; violence; and commercialization. By examining women’s experiences and bringing feminist insights to bear on a public issue, the editors attempt to reframe the discussion to better inform public health approaches and political action. Doing so can help us recognize the value of breastfeeding for the public’s health and the important productive and reproductive contributions women make to the world.

Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding
Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding

Author: Linda J. Smith

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2009-09-24

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 144961129X

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This text examines the research and evidence connecting birth practices to breastfeeding outcomes. It takes an in-depth look at the post-birth experiences of the mother and baby, using the baby’s health as the vehicle and the intact mother-baby dyad as the model to address birth practices that affect breastfeeding. The Second Edition has been completely revised to include new information on infant outcomes, including epidural anesthesia and Cesarean surgery, clinical strategies for helping the mother and baby recover from birth injuries, medications and complications, and information on Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiatives with a Mother-Friendly Module.

Many Voices, One Mission
Many Voices, One Mission

Author: Michael G. Reccia

Publisher: Band of Light Media Limited

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 145663125X

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A million souls are waiting to inspire you... For over a decade the highly acclaimed Joseph Communications books have presented a practical, refreshing, no-nonsense approach to life and spiritual evolution, examining our journey beyond physical death and also addressing this empowering moment in our here and now, the wisdom of the highly evolved spirit communicator Joseph offering a blueprint for much-needed positive change, both personally and globally. In communicating, Joseph is the spokesperson and conduit for the teachings and observations of a vast 'group soul': a commune of millions of evolved discarnate spirits deeply concerned for our wellbeing and future prospects at this critical point in our evolution. Enlightening and uplifting, Many Voices, One Mission gives voice to the viewpoints of some of the key members of that group, gathering together for the first time life-changing communications delivered over many years to Joseph's trance medium, Michael G, Reccia, and his life partner Jane. Many Voices, One Mission also offers a fascinating insight into how Michael and Jane's daily lives have been affected and shaped by the sudden and regular appearance of visitors from the spirit realities that co-exist with this one. Covering a wealth of topics including the afterlife, self help and spiritual healing and guidance, Many Voices, One Mission serves as an inspiring stand-alone volume and also as an essential companion to the Joseph Communications, offering readers personal support, a profound understanding of the human condition and dynamic, Light-infused spiritual insights to counter an increasingly materialistic and isolating age.