Breastfeeding
(see also Midwifery & Child Care)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Breastfeeding on the Set. Robin Riccitiello, Breastfeeding (n.d.). Actress Lisa Vidal tells how.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.
Baby Milk Action. Nestlé boycott.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (Breastfeeding Topics).
Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT). Nestlé boycott.
La Leche League International.
Mothering: The Magazine of Natural Family Living.
Nestlé (Wikipedia). Summarizes history of company & its efforts to promote consumption of commercial infant formula at whatever cost to humanity.
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Abrams, Richard S. Will It Hurt the Baby? The Safe Use of Medications during Pregnancy & Breastfeeding (Reading MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990).
Anon. Las multinacionales de la alimentación contra los bebés (México: Nueva Imagen, 1982).
Apple, Rima D. Mothers & Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 19890-1950 (Madison: U. of Wisconsin, 1987).
Baumslag, Naomi & Dia M. Michels. Milk, Money & Madness: The Culture & Politics of Breastfeeding (Westport CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1995).
Blum, Linda M. At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding & Motherhood in the Contemporary US (Boston: Beacon, 1999).
Brown, Amy Benson & Kathryn Read. The Reality of Breastfeeding: Reflections by Contemporary Women (Westport CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1998).
Caldwell, Karen (ed.) Reclaiming Breastfeeding for the US: Protection, Promotion & Support (Sudbury MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2002).
Campbell, Carolyn E. The Decline in Breastfeeding: An Analysis of the Role of the Nestlé Corporation from Two Perspectives (Ithaca: NY College of Human Ecology, 1982).
Carter, Pam. Feminism, Breasts, & Breast Feeding (NY: St. Martin's, 1995).
Cottingham, Jane (ed.) Bottle Babies: A Guide to the Baby Foods Issue (Carouge, Switzerland: ISIS, 1976).
Dobbing, John (ed.) Infant Feeding: Anatomy of a Controversy, 1973-1984 (NY: Springer-Verlag, 1988).
Fildes, Valerie A. Breasts, Bottles & Babies: A History of Infant Feeding (Edinburgh: U. of Edinburgh, 1986).
__________. Wet Nursing from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988).
Francis, Solveig & Others. The Milk of Human Kindness: Defending Breastfeeding from the Global Market & the AIDS Industry (Philadelphia: Crossroads, 2002).
Gaskin, Ina May. Babies, Breastfeeding & Bonding (South Hadley MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1987).
Giles, Fiona. Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
Grieco, Sara F. Matthews & Carlo A. Corsini. Historical Perspectives on Breastfeeding: Two Essays (Florence: UNICEF International Child Development Center, 1991).
Hausman, Bernice L. Mother's Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture (NY: Routledge, 2003).
Helsing, Elisabet. Breastfeeding in Practice: A Manual for Health Workers (NY: Oxford, 1982).
Hull, Valerie & Mayling Simpson (eds.) Breastfeeding, Child Health & Child Spacing: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (London: Croom Helm, 1985).
Kroeger, Mary. Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding: Protecting the Mother & Baby Continuum (Sudbury M
A: Jones & Bartlett, 2004).
La Leche League. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (London: Tandem, 1971).
Maher, Vanessa (ed.) The Anthropology of Breastfeeding: Natural Law or Social Construct? (Providence RI: Berg, 1992).
Odent, Michel. The Nature & Birth of Breastfeeding (Westport CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1992),
Pandey, Rajendra. Breast-Feeding & Working Women in India: Constraints & Opportunities (Allahabad: Chugh, 1990).
Raphael, Dana. The Tender Gift: Breastfeeding (NY: Schocken, 1976).
__________ (ed.) Breastfeeding & Food Policy in a Hungry World (NY: Academic, 1979).
__________ & Flora Davis. Only Mothers Know: Patterns of Infant Feeding in Traditional Cultures (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1985).
Riordan, Jan (ed.) Breastfeeding & Human Lactation (Suudbury MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2005).
Schwartz, Friedhelm. Nestlé: The Secrets of Food, Trust & Globalization (Toronto: Key Porter, 2002).
Steingraber, Sara. Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood (Cambridge MA: Perseus, 2001).
Van Esterik, Penny. Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1989).
Ward, Julie DeJager. La Leche League: At the Crossroads of Medicine, Feminism & Religion (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 2002).
Whitaker, Elizabeth Dixon. Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism & the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan 2000).
Wolf, Jacqueline H. Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health & the Decline of Breastfeeding in the 19th & 20th C. (Columbus: Ohio State U., 2001).