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Is Breast Best? – Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood: Biopolitics

Autor Joan B. Wolf
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iul 2013
Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication, Wolf writes, the conviction that breastfeeding provides babies unique health benefits and that formula feeding is a risky substitute is unsubstantiated by the evidence. In accessible prose, Wolf argues that a public obsession with health and what she calls “total motherhood” has made breastfeeding a cause célèbre, and that public discussions of breastfeeding say more about infatuation with personal responsibility and perfect mothering in America than they do about the concrete benefits of the breast. Parsing the rhetoric of expert advice, including the recent National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign, and rigorously questioning the scientific evidence, Is Breast Best? uncovers a path by which a mother can feel informed and confident about how best to feed her thriving infant—whether flourishing by breast or by bottle.Joan B. Wolf is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Texas A & M University and author of Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781479838769
ISBN-10: 1479838764
Pagini: 258
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: MI – New York University
Seria Biopolitics


Cuprins

Acknowledgements; Preface: Why Breastfeeding?1. Monitoring Mothers: A Recent History of Following the Doctor’s Orders; 2. The Science: Does Breastfeeding Make Smarter, Happier and Healthier Babies?; 3. Minding Your Own (Risky) Business: Health and Personal Responsibility; 4. From the Womb to the Breast: Total Motherhood and Risk-Free Children; 5. Scaring Mothers: The Government Campaign for Breastfeeding; 6. Conclusion: Whither Breastfeeding?Notes; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

"Wolf offers a powerful and important cultural critique...this is an insightful and eye-opening book that will be of interest to sociologists of gender, medical sociologists, and science studies scholars.”—American Journal of Sociology "Wolf notes the 'insular and unidimensional zealotry' of breastfeeding campaigners and skillfully uncovers elements of racism and elitism in their behavior toward working women who do not have the luxury to breastfeed.”—Choice "Beautifully written, powerfully argued. . . . Challenges the science prescription that all infants must be breastfed.” Linda Blum, author of At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States"Instead of disputing the science about the chemical makeup of breast milk . . . she (Wolf) posits that the benefits most people associate with breast-feeding studies cannot be separated from the fact that mothers who breast-feed may be more attuned to health and may take more precautions about hygiene . . . Wolf rightfully contends that in the government's and advocate’s zeal to increase the numbers of breast-fed babies, they have vastly discounted the harsh realities of breast-feeding in a modern world" -Tara A. Trower, Statesman.com"Wolf confronts the stereotypes of ideal motherhood and explains how public health campaigns and advocacy groups have relied on flawed infant-feeding research to exaggerate any health risks associated with using infant formula." Texas A & M University News,tamunews.tamu.edu
"Wolf offers a powerful and important cultural critique...this is an insightful and eye-opening book that will be of interest to sociologists of gender, medical sociologists, and science studies scholars." - American Journal of Sociology "Wolf notes the 'insular and unidimensional zealotry' of breastfeeding campaigners and skillfully uncovers elements of racism and elitism in their behavior toward working women who do not have the luxury to breastfeed." - Choice "Beautifully written, powerfully argued... Challenges the science prescription that all infants must be breastfed." Linda Blum, author of At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States "Instead of disputing the science about the chemical makeup of breast milk ... she (Wolf) posits that the benefits most people associate with breast-feeding studies cannot be separated from the fact that mothers who breast-feed may be more attuned to health and may take more precautions about hygiene ... Wolf rightfully contends that in the government's and advocate's zeal to increase the numbers of breast-fed babies, they have vastly discounted the harsh realities of breast-feeding in a modern world" -Tara A. Trower, Statesman.com "Wolf confronts the stereotypes of ideal motherhood and explains how public health campaigns and advocacy groups have relied on flawed infant-feeding research to exaggerate any health risks associated with using infant formula." Texas A & M University News,tamunews.tamu.edu

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Descriere

A controversial argument against the notion that breast-feeding is superior to bottle-feeding