Scandalous practices and political performances: breastfeeding in the city
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Article Title | Scandalous practices and political performances: breastfeeding in the city |
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ERA Journal ID | 34681 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Bartlett, Alison |
Journal Title | Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies |
Journal Citation | 16 (1), pp. 111-121 |
Year | 2002 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1030-4312 |
1469-3666 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310220121019 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10304310220121019 |
Abstract | Picture this: 388 babies in one room breastfeeding. All at the same time. Imagine the quantities of milk being produced and consumed. Imagine all those breasts in the one I’m interested in recent media ‘events’ involving breastfeeding because they generate particular narratives about breastfeeding and most are infused with ‘scandal’. ‘Breasts are a scandal for patriarchy’, writes Iris Young, ‘because they disrupt the border between The examples of breastfeeding in public that reach the newspapers are always to do with white middle-class urban dwellers. It is signi� cant that indigenous, ethnic, rural and lower socio-economic groups are not the subject of scandals about breastfeeding. White middle-class women like myself are the women with the most available power in a Western colonized nation like Australia—we are the ones in a position to publicly contest social values. We are usually assumed to be ‘average’, or normative, and so do |
Keywords | breastfeeding; public |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440599. Gender studies not elsewhere classified |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9z213/scandalous-practices-and-political-performances-breastfeeding-in-the-city
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