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Is Breast Best? - Joan B. Wolf

Is Breast Best?

Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

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Buch | Softcover
258 Seiten
2013
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-3876-9 (ISBN)
CHF 46,90 inkl. MwSt
Use of formula milk spiked between the 1950s and 1970s, as a supplement to breastfeeding. So how is it that most of those bottle-fed babies grew up to believe that breast, and only breast, is best? The author challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding.
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.

Joan B. Wolf is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas A&M University and author of Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France.

Acknowledgments Preface: Why Breastfeeding? 1 Monitoring Mothers A Recent History of Following the Doctor's Orders 2 The Science Does Breastfeeding Make Smarter, Happier, and Healthier Babies? 3 Minding Your Own (Risky) Business Health and Personal Responsibility 4 From the Womb to the Breast Total Motherhood and Risk-Free Children 5 Scaring Mothers The Government Campaign for Breastfeeding 6 Conclusion Whither Breastfeeding?Notes Bibliography IndexAbout the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.7.2013
Reihe/Serie Biopolitics
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Schwangerschaft / Geburt
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitsfachberufe Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4798-3876-4 / 1479838764
ISBN-13 978-1-4798-3876-9 / 9781479838769
Zustand Neuware
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