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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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