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Managing The Lactating Body: The Breast-Feeding Project and Privileged Motherhood
Authors:Orit Avishai
Affiliation:(1) University of California, 410 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1980, USA
Abstract:Drawing on interviews with twenty-five mostly white, educated, work-force experienced and class-privileged mothers, this paper explores how these women construct the lactating body as a carefully managed site and breast-feeding as a project—a task to be researched, planned, implemented, and assessed, with reliance on expert knowledge, professional advice, and consumption. The framing of breast-feeding as a project contrasts with the emphases on pleasure, embodied subjectivity, relationality, and empowerment that characterizes much of the recent breast-feeding literature across the humanities and social sciences. I argue that the project frame sheds light on the amount of work and self-discipline involved in compliance with broader middle-class mothering standards set in the consumerist, technological, medicalized, and professionalized contexts that shape parenting in late capitalist America.
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Keywords:Breast-feeding  Mothering  Parenting experts  Body management  Medicalization
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