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Is Breast Best?

by Joan B. Wolf
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Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication, Wolf writes, the conviction that breastfeeding provides babies unique health benefits and that formula feeding is a risky substitute is unsubstantiated by the evidence. In accessible prose, Wolf argues that a public obsession with health and what she calls "total motherhood" has made breastfeeding a cause célèbre, and that public discussions of breastfeeding say more about infatuation with personal responsibility and perfect mothering in America than they do about the concrete benefits of the breast.
Parsing the rhetoric of expert advice, including the recent National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign, and rigorously questioning the scientific evidence, Is Breast Best? uncovers a path by which a mother can feel informed and confident about how best to feed her thriving infant—whether flourishing by breast or by bottle.

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Series: Biopolitics Publisher: NYU Press

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  • Release date: December 19, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9780814795255
  • File size: 1976 KB
  • Release date: December 19, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9780814795255
  • File size: 1976 KB
  • Release date: December 19, 2010

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Health & Fitness Sociology Nonfiction

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English

Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication, Wolf writes, the conviction that breastfeeding provides babies unique health benefits and that formula feeding is a risky substitute is unsubstantiated by the evidence. In accessible prose, Wolf argues that a public obsession with health and what she calls "total motherhood" has made breastfeeding a cause célèbre, and that public discussions of breastfeeding say more about infatuation with personal responsibility and perfect mothering in America than they do about the concrete benefits of the breast.
Parsing the rhetoric of expert advice, including the recent National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign, and rigorously questioning the scientific evidence, Is Breast Best? uncovers a path by which a mother can feel informed and confident about how best to feed her thriving infant—whether flourishing by breast or by bottle.

Expand title description text
Health & Fitness Sociology Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    NYU Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: December 19, 2010

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780814795255
    File size: 1976 KB
    Release date: December 19, 2010

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780814795255
    File size: 1976 KB
    Release date: December 19, 2010

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    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
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  • Languages
    English
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