Breastfeeding Rights in the United States (Reproductive Rights and Policy)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: December 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780275991364
Subjects: Human rights; Human Rights And Foreign Policy; Parent And Child; Health & Fitness; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Health/Fitness; Parenting - General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Women's Studies - General; Family & Relationships / Parenting; Breastfeeding; Civil Law; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Law and legislation; Political aspects; Social aspects; United States
Description: Kedrowski and Lipscomb (both political science, Winthrop U.) begin by listing and analyzing all the laws, policies, judicial opinions, cultural mores and public attitudes about breastfeeding in the US, then compare them to prevailing thought that advocates it but does not allow for it in public or at the workplace. They believe the conflict creates a double bind ("Do it but do not do it here") that creates coercion that is incompatible with the meaningful exercise of rights. Their final chapter takes an interesting point of view that makes breastfeeding activists and liberal feminists allies, a rare but perhaps workable partnership.