TY - BOOK ID - 85797851 TI - Sharing milk : intimacy, materiality and bio-communities of practice AU - Carter, Shannon K. AU - Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M. AU - ProQuest (Firme) PY - 2020 SN - 1529202094 1529202108 1529202116 1529202086 PB - Bristol : Bristol University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Breast milk KW - Breastfeeding. KW - Collection of breast milk KW - Preservation of breast milk KW - Food handling KW - Breast feeding KW - Nursing (Breastfeeding) KW - Suckling KW - Infants KW - Lactation KW - Wet nurses KW - Collection and preservation. KW - Preservation KW - Storage KW - Nutrition KW - Breastfeeding KW - Motherhood. KW - Social aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Maternity KW - Mothers KW - Parenthood KW - Breastmilk KW - Human milk KW - Milk, Human KW - Mother's milk KW - Milk KW - Lait de femme KW - Allaitement maternel. KW - Extraction et conservation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85797851 AB - The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the US. Ranging widely across themes of motherhood, gender and sociology, this is a compelling empirical account of infant feeding that stimulates new thinking about a contentious practice. ER -