The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding : : Power, Pleasure, Poetics / / Robyn Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• VerfasserIn: Lee, Robyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Breastfeeding, Subjectivity, and Art as a Way of Life --; 2. Biopower, Medicalization, and Maternalism --; 3. Ethics, Pleasure, Subjectivity --; 4. Feeding the Hungry Other: Levinas and Breastfeeding --; 5. Breastfeeding and Sexual Difference --; 6. A Politics of Breastfeeding --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487518561; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604016; 9783110603231; 9783110606799
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487518561
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robyn Lee.

Responding to the most widely read breastfeeding manual, La Leche League's The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Robyn Lee's The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an art that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process. The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding challenges the dominant understanding of breastfeeding and cultivates an alternative conception as an ethical, embodied practice of the self. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, and Luce Irigaray, Lee develops a new understanding of breastfeeding as an "art of living," where the practice is reconsidered in the light of ongoing social inequalities.