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Mother's Milk : Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture by Bernice L. Hausman is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mother's Milk : Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture about?
Mother's Milk examines why nursing a baby is an ideologically charged experience in contemporary culture. Drawing upon medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature, and an intimate knowledge of breastfeeding itself, Bernice Hausman demonstrates what is at stake in mothers' infant feeding choices--economically, socially, and in terms of women's rights. Breastfeeding controversies, she argues, reveal social tensions around the meaning of women's bodies, the authority of scienc
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bernice L. Hausman
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781135208226
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Medical
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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