Citation
Palmquist, Aunchalee E. L. (2014). Demedicalizing Breast Milk: The Discourses, Practices, and Identities of Informal Milk Sharing.. Cassidy, Tanya & El Tom, Abdullahi (Eds.) (pp. 23-44). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Abstract
Milk sharing is an emergent infant-feeding practice in which a breastfeeding mother nourishes a child who is not her own biological offspring through privately negotiated altruistic breastmilk gifts. Altruistic milk sharing is often called “informal” milk sharing, to distinguish it from breastmilk donations that are processed and distributed by a human milk bank. It is distinct from “milk selling,” which involves marketing breastmilk for profit. While wet-nursing, cross-nursing, co-nursing, and other forms of co-operative breastfeeding have a long history in the United States (Golden 2001), it was the use of internet social networking sites on Facebook that catapulted milk sharing into the public gaze, transforming it into a bona fide modern social phenomenon (Akre, Gribble, and Minchin 2011; Geraghty, Heier, and Rasmussen 2011; Cassidy 2012a; Gribble and Hausman 2012).
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003085294-3Reference Type
Book Section
Year Published
2014
Author(s)
Palmquist, Aunchalee E. L.
ORCiD
Palmquist - 0000-0002-0848-6952
