• table of contents, pregnancy & birth:

being pregnant & giving birth

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  1. stephanie
    Posted 2 January 2012 at 1:39 AM | Permalink

    thank you so much for putting this list of resources together. i just linked to it on my blog today!

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  • “ breastfeeding is a paradigmatic feminist issue because it requires rethinking basic issues such as the sexual division of labor, the fit between women's productive and reproductive lives, and the role of physiological processes in defining gender ideology. […] Breastfeeding requires negotiating a number of socially constructed dualisms that have dominated western thinking […]: production vs. reproduction; public vs. private; nature vs. culture; mind vs. body; work vs. leisure; self vs. other; maternal vs. sexual. Breastfeeding in theory and practice bridges many of these oppositions and dissolves others. ”
    - Penny Van Esterik


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