Sharing milk: intimacy, materiality and bio-communities of practice

The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dyna...

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Main Authors: Carter, Shannon K. 1969- (Author), Reyes-Foster, Beatriz ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol Bristol University Press 2020
Series:Gender and sociology series
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Summary:The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the US. Ranging widely across themes of motherhood, gender and sociology, this is a compelling empirical account of infant feeding that stimulates new thinking about a contentious practice
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 215 Seiten)
ISBN:9781529202090
DOI:10.46692/9781529202090

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