Sharing Milk

Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice

Shannon K. Carter (University of Central Florida), Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster

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Bristol University Press
09 October 2020

Sociology: birth; Sociology: family & relationships

Series: Gender and Sociology

This dynamic new analysis explores the motivations and meanings behind the growing phenomenon of breast milk sharing in the West.

Through examples of infant feeding communities and a bio-communities of practice framework, it explores the journeys of mothers who give and receive breast milk. Unique in its ethnographic approach, the book seeks wider meanings, interpreting moral aspects of the practice, the interactional privilege and subversiveness that it represents, as well its implications for femininity, individual responsibility and community. Ranging widely across themes of motherhood, gender and sociology, this is a compelling empirical account of infant feeding that stimulates new thinking about a much-debated practice.

By: Shannon K. Carter (University of Central Florida), Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529202083
ISBN 10: 1529202086
Series: Gender and Sociology
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 09 October 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shannon K. Carter is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. Her primary research areas are sociology of reproduction, social inequalities and sociology of health and medicine. Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida. Her research interests focus on medical anthropology, medical interactions, and coloniality.