Back to the Breast
Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America
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Introduction: Why Breastfeeding?
Chapter 1. Make Room for Mother: The “Psy”-entific Ideology of Natural Motherhood
Chapter 2. Frustration and Failure: The Scientific Management of Breastfeeding
Chapter 3. “Motherhood Raised to the nth Degree”: Breastfeeding in the Postwar Years
Chapter 4. Maternal Expectations: New Mothers, Nurses, and Breastfeeding
Chapter 5. Our Bodies, Our Nature: Breastfeeding, the Environment, and Feminism
Chapter 6. Woman’s Right, Mother’s Milk: The Nature and Technology of Breast Milk Feeding
Epilogue. Natural Motherhood Redux
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Forum for the History of Science in America: Philip J. Pauly Book Prize
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