Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature

Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9781040132623
ISBN-13 : 1040132626
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Book Synopsis Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature by : Wendy Whelan-Stewart

Download or read book Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature written by Wendy Whelan-Stewart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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