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Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn’t
Suzanne Barston
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Description for Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn’t
Hardback. Probes breastfeeding politics through the lens of the author's own experiences as well as those of the women she has met through her popular blog, The Fearless Formula Feeder. Incorporating expert opinions, medical literature, and popular media into a pithy, often wry narrative, this title offers a corrective to our infatuation with the breast. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 382. How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why it Shouldn't. 224 pages. Probes breastfeeding politics through the lens of the author's own experiences as well as those of the women she has met through her popular blog, The Fearless Formula Feeder. Incorporating expert opinions, medical literature, and popular media into a pithy, often wry narrative, this title offers a corrective to our infatuation with the breast. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JHBK. Dimension: 213 x 149 x 21. Weight: 382.
As the subject of a popular web reality series, Suzanne Barston and her husband Steve became a romantic, ethereal model for new parenthood. Called "A Parent is Born," the program's tagline was "The journey to parenthood ...from pregnancy to delivery and beyond." Barston valiantly surmounted the problems of pregnancy and delivery. It was the "beyond" that threw her for a loop when she found that, despite every effort, she couldn't breastfeed her son, Leo. This difficult encounter with nursing - combined with the overwhelming public attitude that breast is not only best, it is the yardstick by which parenting prowess ... Read more
As the subject of a popular web reality series, Suzanne Barston and her husband Steve became a romantic, ethereal model for new parenthood. Called "A Parent is Born," the program's tagline was "The journey to parenthood ...from pregnancy to delivery and beyond." Barston valiantly surmounted the problems of pregnancy and delivery. It was the "beyond" that threw her for a loop when she found that, despite every effort, she couldn't breastfeed her son, Leo. This difficult encounter with nursing - combined with the overwhelming public attitude that breast is not only best, it is the yardstick by which parenting prowess ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
381g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520270237
SKU
V9780520270237
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Ref
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About Suzanne Barston
Suzanne Barston has worked for the past decade as a writer and editor for health and parenting publications, including as the Editor-in-Chief of Los Angeles Family Magazine. She runs The Fearless Formula Feeder blog.
Reviews for Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn’t
"Barston's short and well-researched book ... based on two years' of interviews with pediatricians, researchers, sociologists, statisticians and fellow feminists will either help expectant moms make personal decisions, or potentially reassure them if they find themselves unable to breastfeed when they had wanted to do so." - Top 10 Books to Gift at a Baby Shower Brain, Child