Feminism, Breasts and Breast-Feeding

By Pam Carter

Book Overview

This book uses a feminist approach to examine the vast amount of material on breast-feeding. Baby milk manufacture is usually seen as the sole cause of the decline in breast-feeding. Using interviews with women the author looks at other dimensions: the sexualization of breasts; the conditions under which infant feeding takes place and professional interventions into mothering. Policy documents and popular breast-feeding books are shown to be preoccupied with getting women to do what they deem natural rather than with women's real needs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333623118
• ISBN13: 9780333623114
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"