Social Science Women's Studies
The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding
Power, Pleasure, Poetics
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2018
- Category
- Women's Studies, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, General, Marriage & Family
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487503710
- Publish Date
- Oct 2018
- List Price
- $76.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487518578
- Publish Date
- Oct 2018
- List Price
- $76.00
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Description
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.
About the author
Robyn Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.