TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whelan-Stewart,Wendy
TI  - Breastfeeding in American women's literature: latching on 
T2  - Routledge research in women's literature
SN  - 9781032722269
U1  - 810.9/353 23/eng/20240626
PY  - 2025///
KW  - American literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Breastfeeding in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
N1  - Caroline Kirkland's pioneer women and the busy breast -- Breastfeeding as good husbandry in Willa Cather's fiction -- Women's utopias and the problem of breastfeeding -- The passions of Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich's breastfeeding mothers -- Nursing an eco-maternal ethics: Maggie Nelson and Camille Dungy
N2  - "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 century 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"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781032722269
ER  -