| Description |
xii, 212 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents 1 -- Introduction 6 -- Advocating for Breastfeeding: An Uphill Battle -- A New Chapter with Familiar Patterns: Biomonitoring -- Infant Feeding Under Wraps -- Breastmilk's Significance -- Environmental Toxicity -- Laying Out the Players -- Chapter 1 -- The Evolving Narrative of Infant Food Contamination: Historical -- Vignettes -- Part I: Wet Nursing -- Contamination Narratives: A Series of Supremacist Gestures 35 -- Defining Terms -- Addressing the (Colonizing) Dangers of Over-Generalizations -- Wet-Nursing and Semen-Curdled Milk: Assessing the Myth of the -- Constitution Too Delicate to Suckle -- Classism, Sexism, Ageism, and Lookism: Assessing Some Trends -- The "Threat of the Dangerous Stranger": Wet-Nursing in -- Select Mid-19th Century U.S. Contexts,,,, -- Human Milk Banking -- White Supremacy and the Colonization of Black Women's Bodies -- Part II: Mathematical Formulae -- The Advent of Scientific Infant Food and the Era of "Scientific Motherhood" -- The Growing Impact of Advertising -- Medicine and Markets -- Colonization and the Search For New Markets: Exporting Infant Food -- As the More "Civilized" Choice -- Breastfeeding and Population Debates -- Debates Around the Possibility of HIV Transmission Through Breastmilk: -- A New Chapter Or An Old Story? -- Chapter 2 --Toxic Disclosure: The Growing Awareness of Environmentally -- Contaminated Breastmilk in the Context of Much-Needed Breast-Feeding Advocacy -- Rachel Carson's Legacy 107 -- The Impact of Changing Rates of Breastfeeding in the United States -- on Interest in Environmental Pollutants in Breastmilk -- Burgeoning Environmentalist Attention and Pulling Back -- Environmentalists' Reluctance -- Children's Health Campaigns: The Power of the Internet -- Impacts of the Breastfeeding Advocacy Community -- Developments in Related Campaigns: Movements -- to Curb Formula Advertising and Use and to Protect Infant Health -- Breastfeeding and Environmental Advocates: Friends or Foes? -- The Role of the Press in Disseminating Stories of Breastmilk Toxicity -- The Press on Toxic Fish -- Developments in Related Campaigns: The Environmental -- Justice Movement -- The Sensitive and Unusual Nature of Breastmilk on a Policy Level -- and as a Fluid Vital to Life -- Chapter 3 - Breast Fetishization, Breast Cancer, and Breast Augmentation: The -- Curious Omissions of Breastfeeding and Breastmilk Contamination as Significant -- Feminist Issues -- A Lack of Feminist Attention 174 -- Feminist Silence on Infant Feeding: From Preoccupation with The Sexual Division of -- Labor To Fights for Reproductive Freedoms -- Feminist Concern Over Maternal Sacrifice and Curtailed Autonomy -- Essentialism/ Constructivism Debates -- Structural Impediments -- Results of the Lack of Feminist Attention to Infant Feeding -- Feminist Attention to Infant Feeding: "The Scientific" versus "the Political"? -- Feminists Critiquing (and Embracing) Science -- Behind the "Political" Argument: Formula as a Liberatory Technology -- Who's Doing the Feeding? Racism, Classism, and Colonization in Childcare Work -- Immigrant Women Doing Childcare -- (In)Attention Among Feminists to the Environmental Contamination of Breastmilk -- What "Science Can Offer: The Benefits of Breastmilk -- When the "Personal is the Political": The "Ecological Impacts" of Formula-Use -- Findings on the Environmental Contamination of Breastmilk and Resulting Health -- Effects on Women and Children -- Feminist Attention to the Environmental Contamination of Breastmilk -- Feminists, Environmental Justice Activists, and Breastmilk Toxicity -- Structural Problems Impeding Breastfeeding in the United States: Women in Workplace -- Geographies and in Environmentally Devastated Communities -- Chapter 4 --Polluting the "Waters" of the Most Vulnerable: Environmental Racism, -- Environmental Justice, and Breastmilk Contamination -- Introduction: Toxic Breastmilk as an "E J" Issue 247 -- The Environmental Justice Movement: A Range of Documented Cases, with -- the List Still Growing -- Chemical Colonization: Toxicity on the Akwasasne -- The Mother's Milk Project -- The Continuing Legacy of Chemical Colonization: the Case of Latina Farm Workers... -- Breastmilk Toxicity Among U.S. Farm Workers -- Buying Organic and Protecting "Our" Children: How we Forget the "Others" -- Moving Towards Environmental Justice -- Urban Women and Those at Risk Due To Occupational or Other -- Exposures -- Approaches to Remediation: Community Based Participatory Action Research -- The Watchperson Project in the Greenpoint/ Williamsburg Neighborhood -- Of Brooklyn, NY: Bringing Awareness to Subsistence Fishing Hazards -- Greater Movement Towards Environmental Justice: The Institute of Health's Vision -- and the La Duke, Bonnie Raitt, Indigo Girls Consciousness-Raising Team -- Conclusion: Breastmilk as a Powerful Symbol of Desecration and Hope -- Conclusion: A Need for More Attention, and More Careful Attention to Breastmilk -- Toxicity -- Assessing Coverage: Two Widely Divergent Approaches 304 -- The Center for Children's Health and the Environment--Basically Appropriate, Bold -- Attention -- Notes 321 -- Appendix A 336 -- Appendix B 338 -- Bibliography 339 -- 1 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index |
| Subject |
Infants -- Nutrition -- United States -- History.
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Breastfeeding -- Health aspects -- United States -- History.
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Breast milk -- Contamination -- United States -- History.
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Food contamination -- Environmental aspects.
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Environmental degradation -- Health aspects.
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Pollution -- Health aspects.
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Milk, Human -- chemistry.
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Breast Feeding -- adverse effects.
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Environmental Pollutants -- adverse effects.
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Food Contamination.
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Infant.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| LC no. |
2005015756 |
| ISBN |
9780791467190 hardback |
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0791467198 hardback |
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9780791467206 paperback |
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0791467201 paperback |
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