Books!

Is Breast Best? Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood. By Joan B. Wolf. NY: NYU Press. 2011.

This is my favourite kind of book to read: it is utterly compelling, highly articulate, thoroughly researched and challenges socially accepted bodies of knowledges and practices. In this case, Joan B. Wolf questions the science that authorises public health campaigns for breastfeeding, which have become increasingly urgent and even punitive in the United States from where Wolf writes. This is a provocative argument and will meet with resistance, but it is also well overdue. 

the pittsburgh milk truck

'In Pittsburgh, public art doubles as sanctuary for breastfeeding moms' Time Healthland Sep 2011.

breast milk stem cells

may bypass ethical dilemmas' New Scientist Nov 14, 2011

milk for sale

'Mothers held to ransom as breast milk sharks charge $1000' - a 2009 feature in the Brisbane Courier Mail about black markets in Australia while advertising the Gold Coast Milk Bank.

And a more recent story from Fox news in Nov 2011: Breast milk for sale - what's all the hype? while advertising a private milk banking online venture.

Leo Pfisterer, icon maker

found this icon at a Catholic shop in Cologne, advertising an exhibition by Viennese icon maker, Leo Pfisterer

fully grown adult goes on all breast milk diet

Strollerderby blog:
http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2011/09/20/fully-grown-adult-goes-on-all-breast-milk-diet-for-some-reason/


but then,
Public pressure pushes dad to give up human breast milk diet
http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2011/09/26/public-pressure-pushes-dad-to-give-up-human-breast-milk-diet/

Eighth Milk Bank for India

'Human Milk Bank Starts in Pune' Daily News and Analysis, 27th June 2011

Disorderly conduct

Woman Sprays Police with Breast Milk. by Cynthia Johnston. Reuters. June 28 2011

'This is a prime example of how alcohol can make individuals do things they would not normally do' [Sheriff] Davis said.

'It's better for you because it's genetically modified'

Chinese scientists genetically modify dairy cows to produce human breast milk. Herald Sun 8 June 2011

transgender goats make human milk?

Scientists genetically engineer female 'Frankenstein' goats in male bodies to create human breast milk. Daily Mail, 14 June 2011

'Liquid Gold

the booming market for human breast milk' by Judy Dutton, Wired magazine June 2011

'Knitted breasts

created by 91 year old pensioner' Newslite Mar 9 2011












Also for sale as midwifery teaching aids:

Ice cream in Covent Garden

'London cooing over gaga ice cream' AFP ABC News 26 Feb 2011
'Breast milk ice cream goes on sale in Covent Garden' BBC News 24 Feb 2011

man milk

An article by Michael Thomsen in Slate 25 May 2011 about male lactation

Lady Cheese Shop

The Lady Cheese Shop, an art exhibit by Miriam Simun in East Village, NY