Back to the breast : natural motherhood and breastfeeding in America / Jessica L. Martucci.
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015Description: 292 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226288031 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Breastfeeding -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Breastfeeding promotion -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Infants -- Nutrition -- United States
- Motherhood -- United States
- Maternal and infant welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mothers -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- 649/.33 23
- RJ216 .M36 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: why breastfeeding? -- Make room for mother: the "psy"-entific ideology of natural motherhood -- Frustration and failure: the scientific management of breastfeeding "Motherhood raised to the Nth degree": breastfeeding in the postwar years -- Maternal expectations: new mothers, nurses, and breastfeeding -- Our bodies, our nature: breastfeeding, the environment, and feminism -- Woman's right, mother's milk: the nature and technology of breast milk feeding -- Epilogue. Natural motherhood redux.