Cover Image

Militant lactivism? : attachment parenting and intensive motherhood in the UK and France /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faircloth, Charlotte
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Series:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; . 24.
Subjects:
Breastfeeding > England.
Breastfeeding > France.
Infants > Nutrition > England.
Infants > Nutrition > France.
Parenting > Social aspects.
Breast Feeding.
Lactation.
Parenting.
Milk, Human.
United Kingdom.
France.
Table of Contents:
  • Intensive motherhood and identity work
  • Infant feeding and intensive motherhood
  • Contextualising 'full-term' breastfeeding
  • La Leche League: philosophy and community
  • 'Finding my tribe'
  • 'It's natural': some cultural contradictions
  • 'What science says is best': science as dogma
  • 'What feels right in my heart': hormones, morality and affective breastfeeding
  • Mothering as identity work in cross-cultural perspective: the case of France