Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-276) and index.
Contents
"Breast is best" -- From $acred [i.e.: sacred] to disembodied motherhood : breastfeeding with the experts and the state -- "Mother to mother" in La Leche League -- "To educate and persuade" : white working-class, respectable mothers -- "To take their own independence" : African-American working-class mothers -- Twenty-first-century virtual mothers or rounded mothers? -- Statement of Ms. Monica Johnson for the University of Michigan, Women of Color Task Force -- Methodology -- Mass circulation magazine articles, 1963-1993.
