The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding: Power, Pleasure, Poetics
Robyn Lee
Responding to the most widely read breastfeeding manual, La Leche League'sThe Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Robyn Lee'sThe Ethics and Politics of Breastfeedingexplores 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 Breastfeedingchallenges 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.
The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeedingchallenges 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.
Year:
2018
Edition:
Hardcover
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press
Language:
english
Pages:
256
ISBN 10:
1487503717
ISBN 13:
9781487503710
File:
PDF, 1.44 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018