- Additional Authors
- Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Gender and sociology series
- Uniform Title
- Sharing milk (Online)
- Gender and sociology series.
- Alternative Title
- Sharing milk (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021).
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- ISBN
- 9781529202090 (ebook)
- OCLC
- ssib044497766
- Author
Carter, Shannon K.
- Title
Sharing milk [electronic resource] : intimacy, materiality and bio-communities of practice / Shannon K. Carter and Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster.
- Imprint
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
- Series
Gender and sociology series
Gender and sociology series.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9781529202083