Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Why Breastfeeding? 1
4. Chapter 1. Make Room for Mother: The “Psy”- entifi c Ideology of Natural Motherhood 27
5. Chapter 2. Frustration and Failure: The Scientific Management of Breastfeeding 58
6. Chapter 3. “Motherhood Raised to the nth Degree”: Breastfeeding in the Postwar Years 89
7. Chapter 4. Maternal Expectations: New Mothers, Nurses, and Breastfeeding 113
8. Chapter 5. Our Bodies, Our Nature: Breastfeeding, the Environment, and Feminism 140
9. Chapter 6. Woman’s Right, Mother’s Milk: The Nature and Technology of Breast Milk Feeding 177
10. Epilogue. Natural Motherhood Redux 213
11. Acknowledgments 229
12. Notes 233
13. Index 285