Description - Mother's Milk by Bernice L. Hausman
Mother's Milk examines how and why nursing a baby - the breast or bottle debate - has become such a complex experience in contemporary culture. By looking at medical, popular, and scholarly materials, Bernice Hausman demonstrates how much is at stake in this ongoing debate - economically, socially and in terms of womens rights. Feminism, she argues, has dropped the ball by ignoring the political and social tensions at work in debates over breastfeeding. Drawing upon biostatistical data, the health industry's own literature, practices in cultures as diverse as Sweden and Kung society, and her wide knowledge of popular culture, Hausman demonstrates convincingly that breastfeeding has no simple story. A provocative and multi-sided work, Mothers Milk will appeal to anyone interested in the politics of breastfeeding and motherhood.
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