The ethics and politics of breastfeeding : power, pleasure, poetics / Robyn Lee

By:

Lee, Robyn [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781487518561
1487518560

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethics and politics of breastfeeding.DDC classification:

649.33 23

LOC classification:

RJ216 .L44 2018eb

NLM classification:

WS 125

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Contents:

Breastfeeding, subjectivity, and art as a way of life -- Biopower, medicalization, and maternalism -- Ethics, pleasure, subjectivity -- Feeding the hungry other: Levinas and breastfeeding -- Breastfeeding and sexual difference -- A politics of breastfeeding

Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher

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"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."-- Provided by publisher