Identifiers: LCCN 2016044039|ISBN 9781250026965 (hardback)|ISBN 9781250026972 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Breastfeeding.|Breastfeeding—Social aspects.|Breastfeeding—Economic aspects.|BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women’s Studies.|SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family.
Classification: LCC RJ216 .S415 2017|DDC 649/.33—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016044039
e-ISBN 9781250026972
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First Edition: January 2017
Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Author’s Note
Epigraph
Introduction
1. Doctor Who? The Medical Field’s Influence on Mothers
2. Milk Money: The Big Business of Bodies, Breasts, and Babies
3. Scientific Breakthroughs or Breakdowns?
4. The Things Unseen: Battling Structural Barriers
5. Nipple-omics and the Value of Motherhood
6. The Feminist Fallacy
7. The Problem of No Problem: The Breastfeeding Movement
8. Boob Control: The Sexualization of Breastfeeding
9. Ending the Letdown: The Way Forward
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
Copyright
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