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An ideological analysis of breastfeeding in contemporary America : disciplining the maternal body / Loreen N. Olson and Jenni M. Simon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olson, Loreen N., author.
- Simon, Jenni M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Breastfeeding.
- Motherhood.
- Parenting--United States.
- Parenting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- "This book explores the breast-is-best discursive formation of hegemonic motherhood that limits possibilities and polices parents. Scholars of feminism, motherhood, gender, and discursive and/or narrative methodologies will find this book useful in exploring the complex systems that control the meanings of motherhood, family, and society"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Discourse, ideology, and breastfeeding : the breast-is-best discursive formation and the construction of hegemonic mothering
- Building the breast-is-best discursive formation : a genealogy of hegemonic motherhood
- Creating the gaze : the birth of the medi-institutionalization of breastfeeding
- Disciplining the maternal body : discourses for expecting moms
- Disciplining the marginalized maternal body : discourses of race, class, and privilege
- Talking back : the discourses of lived experience
- Talking back and taking back : discourses of resistance and change.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-45928-6
- 1-4985-3130-X
- OCLC:
- 1130901941
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