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Tainted milk : breastmilk, feminisms, and the politics of environmental degradation /

"Tainted Milk provides an in-depth analysis of the debate about infant nourishment issues, with a particular focus on environmentally contaminated breastmilk. Maia Boswell-Penc asks why feminists and environmentalists have, for the most part, remained relatively quiet about the fact that enviro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boswell-Penc, Maia, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 evolving narrative of infant food contamination : historical vignettes
  • Ch. 2 Toxic disclosure : the growing awareness of environmentally contaminated breastmilk in the context of much-needed breastfeeding advocacy
  • Ch. 3 Breast fetishization, breast cancer, and breast augmentation : the curious omissions of breastfeeding and breastmilk contamination as significant feminist issues
  • Ch. 4 Polluting the "waters" of the most vulnerable : environmental racism, environmental justice, and breastmilk contamination.