Sharing Milk: Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice

Shannon K. Carter; Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster

doi:10.46692/9781529202090

Sharing Milk

Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice

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Shannon K. Carter, University of Central Florida, Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: March 2021
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781529202090
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529202090

Subjects:: Social Theory, Sociology of Gender, Sociology

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The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the US. Ranging widely across themes of motherhood, gender and sociology, this is a compelling empirical account of infant feeding that stimulates new thinking about a contentious practice.

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Sharing Milk

Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Contents
pp ix-ix

List of Figures and Tables
pp x-x

Notes on the Authors
pp xi-xi

Acknowledgements
pp xii-xiv

Preface
pp xv-xvi

1 - Introduction: Sharing Milk
pp 1-34

2 - Theorizing Milk Sharing
pp 35-62

3 - Entering Bio-Communities of Practice
pp 63-96

4 - Milk-Sharing Practices
pp 97-134

5 - The Milk-Sharing Network
pp 135-164

6 - Conclusion
pp 165-174

Notes
pp 175-178

Appendix A - Survey Participant Demographics
pp 179-180

Appendix B - Interview Participant Demographics
pp 181-184

References
pp 185-208

Index
pp 209-215

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