Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature - Latching On

By cataloguing scenes in which characters breastfeed across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this book studies the beliefs, fantasies, and concerns betrayed by their writers, and it charts the many consistent and competing cultural ideologies that accrue over the years and find expression in breastfeeding scenes

List of contents

Introduction
1. Caroline Kirkland’s Pioneer Women and the Busy Breast
2. Breastfeeding as Good Husbandry in Willa Cather’s Fiction
3. Women’s Utopias and the Problem of Breastfeeding
4. The Passions of Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich’s Breastfeeding Mothers
5. Nursing an Eco-Maternal Ethics: Maggie Nelson and Camille Dungy
Conclusion
Work Cited
Index

About the author

Wendy Whelan-Stewart is Associate Professor of English and the coordinator of the English Master of Arts Program at McNeese State University. She received her doctorate in American Literature, with a minor in Feminist Theory and Women's Studies, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She teaches American literature and focuses her research on contemporary North American women writers.

Summary

By cataloguing scenes in which characters breastfeed across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this book studies the beliefs, fantasies, and concerns betrayed by their writers, and it charts the many consistent and competing cultural ideologies that accrue over the years and find expression in breastfeeding scenes

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Whelan-Stewart
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032722191
• ISBN: 978-1-03-272219-1
• No. of pages: 142
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Research in Women's Literature
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism