Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities 1
5. Part I. Frames
6. Chapter 1. Feminism and Breastfeeding: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Material Realities of Women’s Lives 15
7. Chapter 2. Breastfeeding Promotion through Gender Equity: A Theoretical Perspective for Public Health Practice 25
8. Chapter 3. Breastfeeding in Public Health: What Is Needed for Policy and Program Action? 36
9. Part II. Studying Breastfeeding across Race, Class, and Culture
10. Chapter 4. Breastfeeding across Cultures: Dealing with Difference 53
11. Chapter 5. The Dangers of Baring the Breast: Structural Violence and Formula-Feeding among Low-Income Women 64
12. Chapter 6. Racism, Race, and Disparities in Breastfeeding 74
13. Part III. Medical Institutions and Health Education
14. Chapter 7. Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Shrinking Maternal Authority 87
15. Chapter 8. New Professions and Old Practices: Lactation Consulting and the Medicalization of Breastfeeding 98
16. Chapter 9. Preparing Women to Breastfeed: Teaching Breastfeeding in Prenatal Classes in the United Kingdom 110
17. Part IV. Roles and Realities
18. Chapter 10. “Are We There Yet?” Breastfeeding as a Gauge of Carework by Mothers 123
19. Chapter 11. Breastfeeding and the Gendering of Infant Care 133
20. Chapter 12. Working out Work: Race, Employment, and Public Policy 144
21. Chapter 13. The Impact of Workplace Practices on Breastfeeding Experiences and Disparities among Women 157
22. Part V. Making and Marketing Mothers’ Milk
23. Chapter 14. Marketing Mothers’ Milk: The Markets for Human Milk and Infant Formula 169
24. Chapter 15. Empowerment or Regulation? Women’s Perspectives on Expressing Milk 180
25. Part VI. Morality and Guilt
26. Chapter 16. Feminist Breastfeeding Promotion and the Problem of Guilt 193
27. Chapter 17. Breastfeeding in the Margins: Navigating through the Conflicts of Social and Moral Order 203
28. Part VII. Media and Popular Culture
29. Chapter 18. Reinstating Pleasure in Reality: Promoting Breastfeeding through Ars Erotica 215
30. Chapter 19. Breastfeeding in the “Baby Block”: Using Reality Television to Effectively Promote Breastfeeding 226
31. Chapter 20. Rethinking the Importance of Social Class: How Mass Market Magazines Portray Infant Feeding 236
32. Part VIII. Sexuality and Women’s Bodies
33. Chapter 21. Breastfeeding in Public: Women’s Bodies, Women’s Milk 249
34. Chapter 22. Sexual or Maternal Breasts? A Feminist View of the Contested Right to Breastfeed Publicly 259
35. Chapter 23. Intersections: Child Sexual Abuse and Breastfeeding 269
36. Conclusion: Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: New Ways Forward in Public Health 281
37. Bibliography 287
38. Notes on Contributors 327
39. Index 333