Breast or bottle? : contemporary controversies in infant feeding policy and practice /
Amy Koerber.
- xiii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Studies in rhetoric/communication .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-178) and index.
Infant feeding and rhetoric : an overview -- From "wives' tales and folklore" to scientific fact : rhetorics of breastfeeding and immunity in the mid-twentieth century -- Articulating knowledge and practice : the rhetoric of infant-feeding policy -- Viral rhetoric : breast and bottle in current promotional discourse -- Rhetorical agency and resistance in the context of infant feeding -- Feminism, rhetoric, and breastfeeding : some concluding remarks.