Maia Boswell-Penc

Tainted Milk (eBook, PDF)

Breastmilk, Feminisms, and the Politics of Environmental Degradation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tainted Milk provides an in-depth analysis of the debate about infant nourishment issues, with a particular focus on environmentally contaminated breastmilk. Maia Boswell-Penc asks why feminists and environmentalists have, for the most part, remained relatively quiet about the fact that environmental toxins have been appearing in breastmilk. She argues that feminists avoid the topic because of their fear of focusing on biological mothering and essentialist thinking, while environmentalists are reluctant to be perceived as fearmongers advocating formula use and contributing to public hysteria. Boswell-Penc also points to the continuing racism, classism, ageism, and corporatization that leaves the less privileged among us more vulnerable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791481851
• Artikelnr.: 60500719

Autorenporträt

Maia Boswell-Penc is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.