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- catalog abstract ""Blum reveals that a discussion about the seemingly private and individual practice of breastfeeding is really a larger conversation about sexuality, class, race, and the control and construction of maternal bodies. Interviewing three distinct groups of women, she discovers that the desirability and possibility of breastfeeding varies greatly. The white middle-class married mothers of La Leche League that Blum talks to find breastfeeding to be a deeply gratifying experience of embodiment despite our society's rigid disciplining of female bodies and their appetites. But the white working-class mothers she interviews often find breastfeeding an anxiety-evoking reminder of uncertain respectability and diminished expectations. And in her interviews of Black working-class mothers she finds that breastfeeding is frequently considered an undesirable practice that carries reminders of the painful history of relations between Blacks and whites in the U.S." "For women seeking greater understanding of their experiences, for readers interested in the history of the body, and for anyone interested in how society constructs and constrains women's choices, At the Breast offers an innovative view of our society from a unique angle."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11118757.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Blum reveals that a discussion about the seemingly private and individual practice of breastfeeding is really a larger conversation about sexuality, class, race, and the control and construction of maternal bodies. Interviewing three distinct groups of women, she discovers that the desirability and possibility of breastfeeding varies greatly. The white middle-class married mothers of La Leche League that Blum talks to find breastfeeding to be a deeply gratifying experience of embodiment despite our society's rigid disciplining of female bodies and their appetites. But the white working-class mothers she interviews often find breastfeeding an anxiety-evoking reminder of uncertain respectability and diminished expectations. And in her interviews of Black working-class mothers she finds that breastfeeding is frequently considered an undesirable practice that carries reminders of the painful history of relations between Blacks and whites in the U.S." "For women seeking greater understanding of their experiences, for readers interested in the history of the body, and for anyone interested in how society constructs and constrains women's choices, At the Breast offers an innovative view of our society from a unique angle."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Breast is best" -- From $acred [i.e. : sacred] to disembodied motherhood: breastfeeding with the experts and the state -- "Mother to mother" in La Leche League -- "To educate and persuade": white working-class, respectable mothers -- "To take their own independence": African-American working-class mothers -- Twenty-first-century virtual mothers or rounded mothers? -- Statement of Ms. Monica Johnson for the University of Michigan, Women of Color Task Force -- Methodology -- Mass circulation magazine articles, 1963-1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-276) and index.".
- catalog extent "282 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "At the breast.".
- catalog identifier "0807021407 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "At the breast.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "At the breast.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1999 F-031".
- catalog subject "306.874/3 21".
- catalog subject "Breast Feeding United States.".
- catalog subject "Breast Feeding".
- catalog subject "Breastfeeding United States.".
- catalog subject "Feminism United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ 759 B658a 1999".
- catalog subject "HQ759 .B618 1999".
- catalog subject "Motherhood United States.".
- catalog subject "Mothers United States.".
- catalog subject "Mothers".
- catalog subject "Social Values United States.".
- catalog subject "Women, Working United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Breast is best" -- From $acred [i.e. : sacred] to disembodied motherhood: breastfeeding with the experts and the state -- "Mother to mother" in La Leche League -- "To educate and persuade": white working-class, respectable mothers -- "To take their own independence": African-American working-class mothers -- Twenty-first-century virtual mothers or rounded mothers? -- Statement of Ms. Monica Johnson for the University of Michigan, Women of Color Task Force -- Methodology -- Mass circulation magazine articles, 1963-1993.".
- catalog title "At the breast : ideologies of breastfeeding and motherhood in the contemporary United States / Linda M. Blum.".
- catalog type "text".