Sharing milk : intimacy, materiality and bio-communities of practice /

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Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this thought-provoking empirical analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing phenomenon of milk sharing in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the US, providing new insigh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Carter, Shannon (Autor), Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
Colección:Gender and sociology
Temas:
Breast milk > Collection and preservation.
Breastfeeding.
Breast milk.
Breast Feeding
Milk, Human
Lait de femme > Extraction et conservation.
Allaitement maternel.
Lait de femme.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Breast milk
Breast milk > Collection and preservation
Breastfeeding
Electronic books.
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series page
  • Sharing Milk: Intimacy, Materiality and Bio- Communities of Practice
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on the Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction: Sharing Milk
  • Discovering milk sharing
  • Milk sharing in context
  • A global history of milk sharing
  • Human milk in the capitalist market
  • Perspectives on milk sharing
  • Milk sharing in practice
  • Peer milk sharing today
  • Beyond infant feeding
  • Methods
  • Birth and breastfeeding in Central Florida
  • Data collection and analysis
  • The sample
  • Making sense of milk sharing
  • 2 Theorizing Milk Sharing
  • Communities of practice
  • Situated learning
  • Central characteristics
  • Biological citizenship and bio-intimacy
  • Biological citizenship
  • Bio-intimacy
  • Emotional materiality
  • Milk and value
  • Biovalue and the gift
  • Emotive value
  • The vibrancy of milk
  • Bio-communities of practice
  • 3 Entering Bio-Communities of Practice
  • A multiplicity of bio-communities
  • Becoming a donor
  • Abundant milk
  • Giving by request
  • Becoming a recipient
  • Insufficient milk
  • Intending to receive
  • Receiving by offer
  • 4 Milk-Sharing Practices
  • Making milk
  • Body work
  • Embodied labour
  • Managing the inventory
  • Finding each other
  • Transferring
  • Receiving from the breast
  • Managing the stash
  • Feeding
  • Digesting
  • 5 The Milk-Sharing Network
  • Foundational context
  • Milk-sharing emerges
  • Connected through practice
  • Local bio-communities of practice
  • Global bio-communities of practice
  • Connected through milk
  • Bio-intimacy
  • Bio-connectedness
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Summary of the book
  • Informing policy and practice
  • Notes
  • Appendix A: Survey Participant Demographics
  • Appendix B: Interview Participant Demographics
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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