Back to the breast
Subtitle: natural motherhood and breastfeeding in America
By: Jessica L. Martucci
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780226288031; 9780226288178
Subjects: Breastfeeding; Nutrition; Mothers; Breastfeeding promotion; Motherhood; Infants; Maternal and infant welfare; Social life and customs; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: why breastfeeding?; title: Make room for mother: the "psy"-entific ideology of natural motherhood; title: Frustration and failure: the scientific management of breastfeeding "Motherhood raised to the Nth degree": breastfeeding in the postwar years; title: Maternal expectations: new mothers, nurses, and breastfeeding; title: Our bodies, our nature: breastfeeding, the environment, and feminism; title: Woman's right, mother's milk: the nature and technology of breast milk feeding; title: Epilogue. Natural motherhood redux.