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Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy. By Courtney Jung. New York: Basic Books, 2015. 258p. $26.99.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2017

Mala Htun
Mala Htun*
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 584 - 586
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Notes

1 I am grateful to Jeff Isaac, Francesca Refsum Jensenius, Sara Niedzwiecki, and Frances Rosenbluth for helpful comments on this essay.

2 Some reviews of Jung’s book have pointed out that WIC offers different food packages to breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding mothers because: 1) breastfeeding mothers need the extra food in order to produce milk; and 2) breastfeeding babies tend to have lower levels of iron than formula-fed ones (since formula contains iron), so babies need extra supplementation when they start eating solid food. See, e.g., Marisa Bellack, “Just how bad are the breast-feeding police?,” Washington Post, November 24, 2015.

3 Nancy Fraser, “Freezing Eggs and Pumping Breastmilk: On the Gendered Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism,” Lecture at the University of Oslo’s Center for Gender Research, Oslo, June 9, 2016.