Others' Milk : : The Potential of Exceptional Breastfeeding / / Kristin J. Wilson.

Breastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others' Milk illustrate just how messy and challenging and unpredictable it can be-an unco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.) :; 1 b-w image
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Nursing Is Public
  • 2. Cleavages: Negotiating Challenges
  • 3. The Mother of Invention: Persisting with Exceptional Breastfeeding
  • 4. Milking the System: Expressing the Politics of Breastfeeding
  • 5. Busting Binaries: Embodying Otherhood and Motherhood
  • 6. Fluidity of the Family: Making Kin
  • 7. "Outpouring of Support": Embodied Solidarity
  • Appendix: List of Participants
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author