The ethics and politics of breastfeeding : power, pleasure, poetics /

The ethics and politics of breastfeeding : power, pleasure, poetics /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lee, Robyn, author.
Imprint:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) : illustrations, portrait
Language:	English
Subject:	Breastfeeding. Breastfeeding -- Social aspects. Breastfeeding -- Political aspects. Breast Feeding -- trends. Breastfeeding. Breastfeeding -- Social aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12283145

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ISBN:	9781487518561 1487518560 9781487503710 1487503717
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Print version record
Summary:	"Responding to the most widely read breastfeeding manual, La Leche League's The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Robyn Lee's The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an art that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process. The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding challenges the dominant understanding of breastfeeding and cultivates an alternative conception as an ethical, embodied practice of the self. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, and Luce Irigaray, Lee develops a new understanding of breastfeeding as an "art of living," where the practice is reconsidered in the light of ongoing social inequalities."--
Other form:	Print version: Lee, Robyn, 1980- Ethics and politics of breastfeeding. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018] 9781487503710

Table of Contents:

Breastfeeding, subjectivity, and art as a way of life
Biopower, medicalization, and maternalism
Ethics, pleasure, subjectivity
Feeding the hungry other: Levinas and breastfeeding
Breastfeeding and sexual difference
A politics of breastfeeding