Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding - Power, Pleasure, Poetics

Robyn Lee’s The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an "art of living" that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process.

List of contents

1. Breastfeeding, Subjectivity, and Art as a Way of Life
2. Biopower, Medicalization, and Maternalism
3. Ethics, Pleasure, Subjectivity
4. Feeding the Hungry Other
5. Breastfeeding and Sexual Difference
6. A Politics of Breastfeeding

About the author

Robyn Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

Summary

Robyn Lee’s The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an "art of living" that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process.

Product details

• Authors: Robyn Lee
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781487503710
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0371-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethik und Moralphilosophie