Performing breastfeeding: rethinking nature -- Medicalising breastfeeding: headwork versus breastwork -- Publicising breastfeeding: scandal in the city -- Sexualising breastfeeding: science to kink -- Pictorialising breastfeeding: models of maternity -- Racialising breastfeeding: black breasts, white milk -- Advocating breastfeeding: choice, choice, choice
Summary
Breastwork delivers an original and personal approach to a near-universal practice and doesn't shy from controversy or controversial topics, such as sexual desire and breastfeeding. It features a broad range of illustrations from Renaissance paintings of mother and child (Madonna del Latte) to Jerry Hall breastfeeding on the cover of Vanity Fair and Kate Langbroek breastfeeding on The Panel to a banned New Zealand health poster of a man breastfeeding at work
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index
