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Veröffentlichung:	September 2024 - NEU!
Genre:	Soziologie
ISBN:	9781032722191
EAN-Code:	9781032722191
Verlag:	Taylor and Francis
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D
Gewicht:	430 gr
Seiten:	142
Illustration:	Farb., s/w. Abb.
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Inhalt:

Rather than rarities, literary depictions of women breastfeeding infants are more common in American literature than recognized. In some cases, readers have dismissed such portrayals as scenic background or strokes of verisimilitude. In other cases, we have failed to register them at all. By cataloging and closely reading scenes of characters breastfeeding across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this book decodes the beliefs of writers as celebrated as Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich and as current as Camille Dungy, Maggie Nelson, and Torrey Peters. It traces in these authors' fantasies and fears the consistent and sometimes competing cultural ideologies that accrue over decades and find expression in breastfeeding scenes. Despite the different historical and cultural expectations of what a mother should be and do, twentieth and twenty-first-century women writers have consistently singled out maternal pleasure-a mother's privileging of her own desire-as the most important theme attending scenes of breastfeeding.