Mother's Milk

出版者:Routledge

作者:Hausman, Bernice L.

页数:288

出版时间:2003-6

价格:$ 41.75

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780415966573

图书标签:sociology

"Mother's Milk" examines how and why nursing a baby - the breast or bottle debate - has become such a complex experience in contemporary culture. By looking at medical, popular and scholarly materials, Bernice Hausman demonstrates how much is at stake in this ongoing debate - economically, socially, and in terms of women's rights. Feminism, she argues, has dropped the ball by ignoring the political and social tensions at work in debates over breastfeeding. Drawing upon biostatistical data, the health industry's own literature, practices in cultures as diverse as Sweden and !Kung society, and her wide knowledge of popular culture, Hausman demonstrates convincingly that breastfeeding has no simple story.