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1 online resource (356 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Beyond Health, Beyond Choice is a multidisciplinary collection of essays written by thirty-seven contributors that examines the role of feminist theory in the promotion of breastfeeding by public health authorities. Essays are arranged thematically and consider breastfeeding in relation to health care; work and family; embodiment (specifically breastfeeding in public); economic and ethnic factors; guilt; violence; and commercialization. |
Contents |
Feminism and breastfeeding : rhetoric, ideology, and the material realities of women's lives / Bernice L. Hausman -- Breastfeeding promotion through gender equity : a theoretical perspective for public heath practice / Paige Hall Smith -- Breastfeeding in public health : what is needed for policy and program action? / Miriam Labbok -- Breastfeeding across cultures : dealing with difference / Penny Van Esterik -- The dangers of baring the breast : structural violence and formula feeding among low-income women / Nancy Chin and Ann Dozier -- Racism, race, and disparities in breastfeeding / Joan E. Dodgson -- Pediatrics, obstetrics, and shrinking maternal authority / Jacqueline H. Wolf -- New professions and old practices : lactation consulting and the medicalization of breastfeeding / Aimee R. Eden -- Preparing women to breastfeed : teaching breastfeeding in prenatal classes in the United Kingdom / Abigail Locke -- "Are we there yet?" : breastfeeding as a gauge of carework by mothers / Chris Mulford -- Breastfeeding and the gendering of infant care / Phyllis L.F. Rippeyoung and Mary C. Noonan -- Working out work : race, employment, and public policy / Jennifer C. Lucas and Deborah McCarter-Spaulding -- The impact of workplace practices on breastfeeding experiences and disparities among women / Amanda Marie Lubold and Louise Marie Roth -- Marketing mothers' milk : the markets for human milk and infant formula / Linda C. Fentiman -- Empowerment or regulation? women's perspectives on expressing milk / Sally Johnson [and others] -- Feminist breastfeeding promotion and the problem of guilt / Erin N. Taylor and Lora Ebert Wallace -- Breastfeeding in the margins : navigating through the conflicts of social and moral order / Danielle Groleau and Lindiwe Sibeko -- Reinstating pleasure in reality : promoting breastfeeding through Ars erotica / Fiona Giles -- Breastfeeding in the "baby block" : using reality television to effectively promote breastfeeding / Katherine A. Foss -- Rethinking the importance of social class : how mass market magazines portray infant feeding / N. Danielle Duckett -- Breastfeeding in public : women's bodies, women's milk / Sally Dowling, Jennie Naidoo, and David Pontin -- Sexual or maternal breasts? a feminist view of the contested right to breastfeed publicly / Carol Grace Hurst -- Intersections : child sexual abuse and breastfeeding / Emily C. Taylor -- Conclusion : Beyond health, beyond choice : new ways forward in public health / Paige Hall Smith, Bernice L. Hausman, and Miriam Labbok. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Breastfeeding -- Social aspects.
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Breastfeeding -- Social aspects. |
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Breastfeeding. |
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Breastfeeding -- Political aspects.
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Breastfeeding -- Government policy.
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Government policy. |
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Feminism.
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Feminism. |
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Breast Feeding. |
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Public Policy. |
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Feminism. |
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
Added Author |
Smith, Paige Hall.
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Hausman, Bernice L.
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Labbok, Miriam H.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Beyond health, beyond choice. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012 9780813553030 (DLC) 2011037583 (OCoLC)752287004 |
ISBN |
9780813553160 (electronic book) |
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0813553164 (electronic book) |
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0813553032 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813553040 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813553030 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813553047 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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