Sharing Milk: Mothering, Work, and Emotional Materiality
Shannon Carter and Beatriz Reyes-Foster
Abstract
The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk-sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the United States. Ranging widely across themes of motherhood, gender and sociology, this is a compelling ... More
Keywords: human milk, infants, infant feeding, individualism, milk-sharing, Global North, motherhood, gender
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781529202083 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2021 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529202083.001.0001 |
