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Out of Milk

Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation

by (author) Lesley Frank

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2020
Category
Breastfeeding, Disease & Health Issues, Social Policy, Children's Health
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774862509
    Publish Date
    Jun 2020
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774862479
    Publish Date
    Jun 2020
    List Price
    $75.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774862486
    Publish Date
    Nov 2020
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

“Did you ever go to bed and wonder if your child was getting enough to eat?” For food insecure mothers, the worry is constant, and babies are at risk of going hungry. Through compelling interviews, Lesley Frank answers the breastfeeding paradox: why women who can least afford to buy infant formula are less likely to breastfeed. She exposes the shocking reality of food insecurity for formula-fed babies and the constraints limiting mothers’ ability to breastfeed. Out of Milk calls out the pressing need to establish the economic and social conditions necessary for successful breastfeeding and for accessible and safe formula feeding for families everywhere.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Lesley Frank is an associate professor of sociology at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She is a leading scholar of infant food insecurity in Canada, with publications in the journals Food, Culture and Society; Food and Foodways; Canadian Food Studies; and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. She is the author of the annual Nova Scotia Family and Child Poverty Report Card and a steering member of Campaign 2000, a cross-Canada public education movement that works to increase public awareness of the levels and consequences of child and family poverty. Her work has been featured on CBC’s The Current.

Editorial Reviews

Clearly and accessibly written, Out of Milk has obvious and immediate value as a resource for policy makers and presents an urgent appeal for governments to reassume their responsibility in supporting the social reproduction of the next generation of Canadian.

Food, Culture, and Society

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