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Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It

Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn't Hardback - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Suzanne Barston

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Hardback. New. Probes breastfeeding politics through the lens of the author's own experiences as well as those of the women she has met through her popular blog, The Fearless Formula Feeder. Incorporating expert opinions, medical literature, and popular media into a pithy, often wry narrative, this title offers a corrective to our infatuation with the breast.
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  • Title Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn't
  • Author Suzanne Barston
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2012-10-18
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780520270237
  • ISBN 9780520270237 / 0520270231
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding - Complications
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012010493
  • Dewey Decimal Code 649.33

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From the rear cover

"Barston's defense of bottlefeeding declares a moratorium on using motherhood as a dumping ground for our cultural anxieties and ambivalences. Through the deft interweave of personal narrative and sharp analysis, Bottled Up reveals how mother-blaming, sloppy science and deficient policies are far more pernicious that artificial milk." --Chris Bobel, author of The Paradox of Natural Mothering

"Bottled Up is a truly timely book. It is testament to how messed up things have become when it comes to motherhood that it even had to be written. The end result is a serious, engaging, challenging and also accessible account, drawing on the best of scholarship, science and journalism."--Ellie Lee, Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, University of Kent

""This is an informative and well-reasoned book that looks acutely at the meaning of baby feeding alternatives. It will be helpful to mothers, no matter what their choice."--Sydney Z. Spiesel, Ph.D. M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine

"This book is a must-read for every woman and man who is fed-up with the shaming and blaming of bottle-feeding parents. Barston explains with evidence, anecdote and humor why breast isn't always best and why women will never be free to enjoy their babies and map the maternal landscape until infant feeding decisions are no longer used as a test of good motherhood."--Dr. Leslie Cannold, author of The Book of Rachael

Barston gives a heartfelt defense of mothers who go against the dogma of Breastfeeding Over All Else. Based on both personal experience and expert consultations, her conclusion: occasionally it's healthier not to breastfeed, and anyway don't stress about it. Surprisingly, such a reasonable point of view is poorly represented in the Mommy Wars. Barston's book is a welcome contribution."--Sam Wang, Ph.D., Princeton University, co-author of Welcome To Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Develops from Conception to College

Media reviews

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 10/01/2012, Page 91

About the author

Suzanne Barston has worked for the past decade as a writer and editor for health and parenting publications, including as the Editor-in-Chief of Los Angeles Family Magazine. She runs The Fearless Formula Feeder blog.