Beyond Health, Beyond Choice

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Price (cloth): $72.00  
Subtitle: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities
Edited by Paige Hall Smith, Bernice L. Hausman, and Miriam Labbok
Subject: Health and Medicine, Public Health
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5304-7
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5303-0
Pages: 304 pages
Publication Date: August 2012
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Praise for Beyond Health, Beyond Choice:

"This well-written and accessible book is free of jargon, and covers a sweeping variety of topics. The case studies are interesting and often moving; this book is a desperately needed and important step toward reconciling feminist views on breastfeeding."
—Karen Kedrowski, coauthor of Breastfeeding Rights in the United States

Description:

Beyond Health, Beyond Choice is a multidisciplinary collection of essays written by thirty-seven contributors that examines the role of feminist theory in the promotion of breastfeeding by public health authorities. The essays are arranged thematically and consider breastfeeding in relation to health care; work and family; embodiment (specifically breastfeeding in public); economic and ethnic factors; guilt; violence; and commercialization. By examining women's experiences, the editors attempt to reframe the discussion to better inform public health approaches and political action.

About the Editors:

PAIGE HALL SMITH is associate professor of public health education and director of the Center for Women's Health and Wellness at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

BERNICE L. HAUSMAN is a professor of English at Virginia Tech and the author of Mother's Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture and Viral Mothers: Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS.

MIRIAM LABBOK is professor and director of the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute in the Department of Maternal and Child Health in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Price (paper): $25.95
Price (cloth): $72.00