Research Catalog

Title

The politics of breastfeeding : when breasts are bad for business / Gabrielle Palmer.

Author

Palmer, Gabrielle.

Publication

London : Pinter & Martin, c2009.

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Details

Description

viii, 423 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

In an updated edition, this powerful and provocative book proves that breastfeeding is much more than a matter of personal inclination. Women all over the world are still being tricked into feeding their babies artificially and this affects us all: our health, our environment and the global economy.

Subject

• Breastfeeding > Social aspects
• Breastfeeding > Political aspects
• Breast Feeding [MESH]
• Infant Nutrition [MESH]
• Politics [MESH]
• Women's Rights [MESH]

Note

• Previous ed.: London: Pandora, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-415) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why breastfeeding is political -- The right to call ourselves mammals : the importance of biology -- How breastfeeding works--and how it was damaged -- Beauty, books and breasts -- A taste of infant feeding -- It's not just the milk that counts -- Your generous donations could do more harm than good -- HIV and breastfeeding -- Live, death and birth -- Population, fertility and sex -- From the stone age to steam engines : a gallop through history -- Other women's babies : wet nursing -- The industrial revolution in Britain : the era of progress? -- Markets are not created by God -- The lure of the global market -- What is the code? -- Power struggles -- Dying for the code -- Documents and declarations -- Work, economics and the value of mothering -- Ecology, waste and greed -- Appendix 1 : The global strategy summary -- Appendix 2 : The Innocenti Declaration 2005 -- Appendix 3 : The ten steps -- Appendix 4 : Section for the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Appendix 5 : Millennium development goals -- Appendix 6 : Mishaps, recalls and contaminants -- Appendix 7 : Infant feeding definitions -- Appendix 8 : CEDAW (The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women).

ISBN

• 9781905177165 (pbk.)
• 190517716X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009482118

OCLC

• 421367643
• SCSB-10665426

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library