Sentences with word «lactivism»

Now a Spanish doll, under the guise of teaching little ones that breastfeeding is normal, is trying to capitalize on lactivism.
In labeling acts of lactivism as narcissistic, you are shaming mothers.
But as Courtney Jung points out in her book Lactivism, while 79 percent of American mothers initiate breastfeeding, only 49 percent are still doing so at six months, the length of time recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
It was mean and nasty, as is most of contemporary lactivism.
Can I just say that recently the Academy of Breast Feeding Madison wrote a blog about lactivism and the breastfeeding backlash, I think it was in October of last year, and what they said that any woman who has just had a baby would probably see a lactivist as the enemy.
In our culture, «broken» by lactivism, exhaustion is the perfect excuse for engaging in a deadly practice if you're breastfeeding, but anathema if you aren't.
Luschka of Diary of a First Child shares Lactivism, Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Mothers at War, one of her most viewed posts of 2011.
Cross-Cultural Framing Strategies of the Breastfeeding Movement and Mothers» Responses portrays lactivism as a social movement with the avowed goal of increasing breastfeeding rates.
Lactivism exists in both the US and Canada, but the Canadian effort has been more successful.
J: You end Lactivism on a thought I've had: that if I had the money and were younger, I'd do it all over again — breastfeeding and pumping included.
Websites and publications concerned with attachment parenting, natural childbirth, homebirth and lactivism emphasize and encourage this hostility.
So promoting breastfeeding is very, very important and taking on public attitudes toward breastfeeding and sticking it to formula companies through lactivism are things you guys can handle, but advocating for meaningful change is beyond your abilities?
Our largest section with a variety of merchandise promoting lactivism, including «Jesus was breast - fed,» «Mama's leavin» weanin» up to me,» «I make milk.
Why I Nurse at the Mall... and at Mass by Kate Wicker Religion and Breastfeeding: How Breastfeeding Impacts the Religious Woman by Jennifer M. Paquette Lactivism and Public Breastfeeding by Tim Challies
Militant lactivism shares some ugly traits with racism.
Courtney Jung's book Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy is published by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
Thank you for putting the rabid lactivism and BFHI insanity in their proper place.
I also want to talk about lactivism — that word that raises heckles, and shouts of «nazi» and bully and so on — and unethical companies.
In our culture, «broken» by lactivism, women have to start caring for the baby the moment the placenta detaches.
when I think of things that I have said in my beginning days of lactivism I cringe.
I'll be checking out The Feminist Breeder's website to do my lactivism part!
Lactivism is about promoting the parenting standards of privileged white women to an ideal that all women are supposed to follow.
Attachment parenting, and the related philosophies of natural childbirth and lactivism, are really about achievement and not about parenting.
Similarly, the lactivism campaign to end free formula samples as US hospitals is also misguided and inane, not to mention completely disrespectful to grown women.
Lactivism is not about benefiting babies.
It's far harder to recognize that this cultural sickness is the basis of contemporary natural childbirth philosophy, lactivism and attachment parenting.
Advocates of natural childbirth, lactivism and attachment parenting insist that they are «better for the baby.»
(Or follow me on Twitter, which has been wonderfully fun in the lactivism dept this week.)
-LSB-...] include Adventures in [Crunchy] Parenting on WIC and Infant Formula, and PhDinParenting's Lactivism and the Homelessness Problem and The Economics of Breastfeeding: A Cost - Benefit Analysis.
That's the question political scientist Courtney Jung sought to answer in her recent book, Lactivism.
I recommend a book called «Lactivism.».
That was my first impression and I thought the reaction was overkill, but she seems to be aligned with a side of lactivism that is well beyond the «breast is best» message.
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