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The politics of breastfeeding : when breasts are bad for business / Gabrielle Palmer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pinter & Martin, 2009Edition: Third updated and revised editionDescription: viii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 190517716X
  • 9781905177165
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Politics of breastfeeding.DDC classification:
  • 649.33 23
LOC classification:
  • RJ216 .P345 2009
Contents:
Why breastfeeding is political -- The right to call ourselves mammals : the importance of biology -- How breastfeeding works--and how it was damaged -- Beauty, books and breasts -- A taste of infant feeding -- It's not just the milk that counts -- Your generous donations could do more harm than good -- HIV and breastfeeding -- Live, death and birth -- Population, fertility and sex -- From the stone age to steam engines : a gallop through history -- Other women's babies : wet nursing -- The industrial revolution in Britain : the era of progress? -- Markets are not created by God -- The lure of the global market -- What is the code? -- Power struggles -- Dying for the code -- Documents and declarations -- Work, economics and the value of mothering -- Ecology, waste and greed -- Appendix 1 : The global strategy summary -- Appendix 2 : The Innocenti Declaration 2005 -- Appendix 3 : The ten steps -- Appendix 4 : Section for the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Appendix 5 : Millennium development goals -- Appendix 6 : Mishaps, recalls and contaminants -- Appendix 7 : Infant feeding definitions -- Appendix 8 : CEDAW (The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why breastfeeding is political -- The right to call ourselves mammals : the importance of biology -- How breastfeeding works--and how it was damaged -- Beauty, books and breasts -- A taste of infant feeding -- It's not just the milk that counts -- Your generous donations could do more harm than good -- HIV and breastfeeding -- Live, death and birth -- Population, fertility and sex -- From the stone age to steam engines : a gallop through history -- Other women's babies : wet nursing -- The industrial revolution in Britain : the era of progress? -- Markets are not created by God -- The lure of the global market -- What is the code? -- Power struggles -- Dying for the code -- Documents and declarations -- Work, economics and the value of mothering -- Ecology, waste and greed -- Appendix 1 : The global strategy summary -- Appendix 2 : The Innocenti Declaration 2005 -- Appendix 3 : The ten steps -- Appendix 4 : Section for the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Appendix 5 : Millennium development goals -- Appendix 6 : Mishaps, recalls and contaminants -- Appendix 7 : Infant feeding definitions -- Appendix 8 : CEDAW (The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women).

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