Bottled Up How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn't

Name: Bottled Up How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn't
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ISBN: 9780520270237

ISBN-10: 0520270231

ISBN-13: 9780520270237

Edition: 2012

Authors: Suzanne Barston

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As the subject of a popular reality series, Suzanne Barston and her husband Steve became a romantic, ethereal model for new parenthood. Called "A Parent is Born," the program's tagline was "a couple's journey from pregnancy to delivery, and beyond." Barston valiantly surmounted the problems of pregnancy and delivery. It was the "beyond" that threw her for a loop when she found that, despite every effort, she couldn't breastfeed her son, Leo. This difficult encounter with nursing--combined with the overwhelming public attitude that breast is not only best, it is the yardstick by which parenting prowess is measured--drove Barston to explore the silenced, minority position that breastfeeding…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/18/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Preconceived Notions



Lactation Failures



Of Human Bonding



The Dairy Queens



Dumn Lies and Statistics



Soothing the Savage Breast


Notes


References and Further Reading