At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States

A colleague of Linda Blum advised her against using the word breasts in her book about mothH erhood, breastfeeding, and how our notions of both are inextricably tied to ideologies of genH der, class, and race. While the comment could not have been made in all seriousness, when I read Blum's account of this conversation I couldn't help but feel the same way. Indeed, as I toted the book along with me over the course of several weeks, null was...