Bibliograph

The ethics and politics of breastfeeding, power, pleasure, poetics, Robyn Lee

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The ethics and politics of breastfeeding, power, pleasure, poetics, Robyn Lee

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-229) and index

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illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The ethics and politics of breastfeeding

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1005864752

Responsibility statement

Robyn Lee

Sub title

power, pleasure, poetics

Summary

"The slogan "Breastfeeding; it's natural" is the motivation force behind the most widely read breastfeeding manual, La Leche League's The womanly art of breastfeeding ... Robyn Lee questions the absolutism of this message in The ethics and politics of breastfeeding, arguing that breastfeeding's representation as a biological marker of femininity has always been politically motivated in that it is tied to the revaluing of woman's domestic role and the undermining of their public power"--Book jacket

Table Of Contents

Breastfeeding, subjectivity, and art as a way of life -- Biopower, medicalization and maternalism -- Ethics, pleasure, subjectivity -- Feeding the hungry other: Levinas and breastfeeding -- Breastfeeding and sexual difference -- A politics of breastfeeding

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