Others' Milk
296 pages, 6 x 9
1 b-w image
Paperback
Release Date:27 Aug 2018
ISBN:9780813593838
Hardcover
Release Date:27 Aug 2018
ISBN:9780813593845
Others' Milk
The Potential of Exceptional Breastfeeding
Rutgers University Press
Breastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old artwork, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad campaigns. The personal accounts in Others’ Milk illustrate just how messy and challenging and unpredictable it can be—an uncomfortable reality in the contemporary context of high-stakes motherhood in which “successful” breastfeeding proves one’s maternal mettle.
Exceptional breastfeeders find creative ways to feed and care for their children—such as by inducing lactation, sharing milk, or exclusively pumping. They want to adhere to the societal ideal of giving them “the best” but sometimes have to face off with dogmatic authorities in order to do so. Kristin J. Wilson argues that while breastfeeding is never going to be the feasible choice for everyone, it should be accessible to anyone.
Exceptional breastfeeders find creative ways to feed and care for their children—such as by inducing lactation, sharing milk, or exclusively pumping. They want to adhere to the societal ideal of giving them “the best” but sometimes have to face off with dogmatic authorities in order to do so. Kristin J. Wilson argues that while breastfeeding is never going to be the feasible choice for everyone, it should be accessible to anyone.
Beautifully written, historically informed, and full of surprising stories about breastfeeding from the margins of mainstream, this book nurtures a more diverse set of breastfeeding practices and a language to speak them. It is a riveting read.’
‘With rich detail, Others’ Milk demonstrates how breastfeeding is a process, an identity, and a performance that is not simply about nourishing children, but one that reveals larger meanings of gender, sexuality, race, inequality—and the limiting ways we imagine bodies can and should be used.’
With rich detail, Others’ Milk demonstrates how breastfeeding is a process, an identity, and a performance that is not simply about nourishing children, but one that reveals larger meanings of gender, sexuality, race, inequality—and the limiting ways we imagine bodies can and should be used.
Breastfeeding As A Spectrum Of Forms And Identities' interview with Kristin J. Wilson
WAMC '51%' interview with Kristin J. Wilson
Interview with Kristin J. Wilson on Jefferson Public Radio's 'Jefferson Exchange'
Recommended.
Interview on KHSU's 'Through the Eyes of Women' with Kristin Wilson, 'Exceptional Breastfeeding'
Breast-feeding is a 5.5 year old isn’t creepy, it’s hilarious,' by Liz Monroy
Radio Health Journal 'Exceptional Breastfeeding' show interview with Dr. Kristin Wilson
Kristin J. Wilson is chair of the anthropology department at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. She is the author of Not Trying: Infertility, Childlessness, and Ambivalence.
1 Nursing in Public
2 Cleavages: Negotiating Challenges
3 The Mother of Invention: Persisting with Exceptional Breastfeeding
4 Milking the System: Expressing the Politics of Breastfeeding
5 Busting Binaries: Embodying Otherhood and Motherhood
6 Fluidity of the family: Making Kin
7 “Outpouring of support”: Embodied solidarity
Acknowledgements
Appendix
References
About the Author
2 Cleavages: Negotiating Challenges
3 The Mother of Invention: Persisting with Exceptional Breastfeeding
4 Milking the System: Expressing the Politics of Breastfeeding
5 Busting Binaries: Embodying Otherhood and Motherhood
6 Fluidity of the family: Making Kin
7 “Outpouring of support”: Embodied solidarity
Acknowledgements
Appendix
References
About the Author
Related Titles
Beyond Health, Beyond Choice
Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities
Edited by Paige Hall Smith, Bernice Hausman, and Miriam Labbok
