Clark, Cristy

Courtney Jung believes that breastfeeding advocates in the United States have unleashed a wave of coercive public breastfeeding initiatives that pressure mothers to feed their babies breastmilk, while providing little support to enable them to do so. She critiques the paucity of medical evidence underpinning the health claims made in favour of breastmilk, and argues that America is ‘using breastfeeding and pumping as a substitute for maternity leave.

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Lactivism:how feminists and fundamentalists, hippies and yuppies, and physicians and politicians made breastfeeding big business and bad policy [Book Review]

Lactivism:how feminists and fundamentalists, hippies and yuppies, and physicians and politicians made breastfeeding big business and bad policy [Book Review]

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