Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities

356 Pages·2012·0.802 MB·English

by  Paige Hall Smith, Bernice L Hausman and Miriam Labbok (eds)

Beyond Health, Beyond Choice
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Edited by Rima D. Apple, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
and Janet Golden, Rutgers University, Camden
Growing criticism of the U.S. health care system is coming from consumers,
politicians, the media, activists, and health care professionals. Critical Issues in
Health and Medicine is a collection of books that explores these contemporary
dilemmas from a variety of perspectives, among them political, legal, historical,
sociological, and comparative, and with attention to crucial dimensions such as
race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and culture.
For a list of titles in the series, see the last page of the book.
Beyond Health,
Beyond Choice
Breastfeeding Constraints
and Realities
Edited by
Paige Hall Smith
Bernice L. Hausman
Miriam Labbok
Rutgers University Press
New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Beyond health, beyond choice : breastfeeding constraints and realities / edited by Paige Hall
Smith, Bernice L. Hausman, Miriam Labbok.
p. ; cm. — (Critical issues in health and medicine)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8135-5303-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8135-5304-7
(pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8135-5316-0 (e-book)
I. Smith, Paige Hall. II. Hausman, Bernice L. III. Labbok, Miriam H. IV. Series: Critical
issues in health and medicine.
[DNLM: 1. Breast Feeding. 2. Feminism. 3. Public Policy. WS 125]
649(cid:2).33—dc23
2011037583
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To our mothers
In memory of Chris Mulford:
mother, feminist, and activist for breastfeeding

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities 1
Bernice L. Hausman, Paige Hall Smith, and
Miriam Labbok
Part I Frames
Chapter 1 Feminism and Breastfeeding: Rhetoric, Ideology,
and the Material Realities of Women’s Lives 15
Bernice L. Hausman
Chapter 2 Breastfeeding Promotion through Gender Equity:
A Theoretical Perspective for Public Health Practice 25
Paige Hall Smith
Chapter 3 Breastfeeding in Public Health: What Is Needed for
Policy and Program Action? 36
Miriam Labbok
Studying Breastfeeding across Race,
Part II Class, and Culture
Chapter 4 Breastfeeding across Cultures: Dealing with Difference 53
Penny Van Esterik
Chapter 5 The Dangers of Baring the Breast: Structural Violence
and Formula-Feeding among Low-Income Women 64
Nancy Chin and Ann Dozier
Chapter 6 Racism, Race, and Disparities in Breastfeeding 74
Joan E. Dodgson
Part III Medical Institutions and Health Education
Chapter 7 Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Shrinking Maternal Authority 87
Jacqueline H. Wolf
vii
viii Contents
Chapter 8 New Professions and Old Practices: Lactation Consulting
and the Medicalization of Breastfeeding 98
Aimee R. Eden
Chapter 9 Preparing Women to Breastfeed: Teaching Breastfeeding
in Prenatal Classes in the United Kingdom 110
Abigail Locke
Part IV Roles and Realities
Chapter 10 “Are We There Yet?” Breastfeeding as a Gauge of
Carework by Mothers 123
Chris Mulford
Chapter 11 Breastfeeding and the Gendering of Infant Care 133
Phyllis L. F. Rippeyoung and Mary C. Noonan
Chapter 12 Working out Work: Race, Employment, and Public Policy 144
Jennifer C. Lucas and Deborah McCarter-Spaulding
Chapter 13 The Impact of Workplace Practices on Breastfeeding
Experiences and Disparities among Women 157
Amanda Marie Lubold and Louise Marie Roth
Part V Making and Marketing Mothers’ Milk
Chapter 14 Marketing Mothers’ Milk: The Markets for Human Milk
and Infant Formula 169
Linda C. Fentiman
Chapter 15 Empowerment or Regulation? Women’s Perspectives on
Expressing Milk 180
Sally Johnson, Dawn Leeming, Steven Lyttle, and
Iain Williamson
Part VI Morality and Guilt
Chapter 16 Feminist Breastfeeding Promotion and the Problem
of Guilt 193
Erin N. Taylor and Lora Ebert Wallace
Chapter 17 Breastfeeding in the Margins: Navigating through the
Conflicts of Social and Moral Order 203
Danielle Groleau and Lindiwe Sibeko
Contents ix
Part VII Media and Popular Culture
Chapter 18 Reinstating Pleasure in Reality: Promoting Breastfeeding
through Ars Erotica 215
Fiona Giles
Chapter 19 Breastfeeding in the “Baby Block”: Using Reality
Television to Effectively Promote Breastfeeding 226
Katherine A. Foss
Chapter 20 Rethinking the Importance of Social Class: How Mass
Market Magazines Portray Infant Feeding 236
N. Danielle Duckett
Part VIII Sexuality and Women’s Bodies
Chapter 21 Breastfeeding in Public: Women’s Bodies, Women’s Milk 249
Sally Dowling, Jennie Naidoo, and David Pontin
Chapter 22 Sexual or Maternal Breasts? A Feminist View of the
Contested Right to Breastfeed Publicly 259
Carol Grace Hurst
Chapter 23 Intersections: Child Sexual Abuse and Breastfeeding 269
Emily C. Taylor
Conclusion: Beyond Health, Beyond Choice:
New Ways Forward in Public Health 281
Paige Hall Smith, Bernice L. Hausman, and
Miriam Labbok
Bibliography 287
Notes on Contributors 327
Index 333