Sharing Milk : : Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice / / Shannon K. Carter, Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Carter, Shannon K.,; Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M.,
• MitwirkendeR: Jackson, Stevi,; Scott, Sue,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Gender and Sociology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 7 Black and White
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Notes on the Authors --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; Introduction: Sharing Milk --; Theorizing Milk Sharing --; Entering Bio-Communities of Practice --; Milk-Sharing Practices --; The Milk-Sharing Network --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Survey Participant Demographics --; Interview Participant Demographics --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781529202090; 9783111196718
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Shannon K. Carter, Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster.

The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the US. Ranging widely across themes of motherhood, gender and sociology, this is a compelling empirical account of infant feeding that stimulates new thinking about a contentious practice.