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Tainted Milk

Boswell-Penc, Maia

2012,2006

Overview

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.

• Publisher: SUNY Press,State University of New York Press
• Subject: Breast Feeding -- adverse effects -- United States / Breast milk / Breast milk -- Contamination -- United States -- History / Breastfeeding / Breastfeeding -- Health aspects -- United States -- History / Contamination / Environmental aspects / Environmental degradation / Environmental degradation -- Health aspects / Environmental Pollutants -- adverse effects -- United States / Environmental Science / Environmental Studies : Environmental Studies / Feminist & Women's Studies / Food contamination / Food contamination -- Environmental aspects / Food Contamination -- United States / Gender and Sexuality : Feminist / Gender and Sexuality : Women's Studies / Health aspects / History / Infant -- United States / Infants / Infants -- United States -- Nutrition -- History / Milk, Human -- chemistry -- United States / Nutrition / Pollution / Pollution -- Health aspects / SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental) / Social groups / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies / Sustainability / United States / Women's Studies
• ISBN: 9780791481851, 0791481859, 0791467201, 9780791467206, 9780791467190, 0791467198