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Of care and commodities: breast milk and the new politics of mobile biosubstances.
- Source :
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Progress in Human Geography . Feb2010, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p5-20. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Advances in lactation technology in recent years have changed the ontological status of breast milk, giving it new-found mobility. This paper considers the contested meanings over breast milk's 'proper place' in US and UK society. By synthesizing scholarship from geography, gender studies and science and technology studies, I use the case of mobile breast milk to propose a new framework for how geographers might conceptualize mobile biosubstances. Drawing on the work of Waldby and Mitchell (2006), I suggest that the ways in which breast milk now travels reflect how mobile biosubstances increasingly function as a hybrid form, drawing together elements of both gift-exchanges and commodity-exchanges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *LACTATION
*BREAST milk
*BREASTFEEDING
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03091325
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Progress in Human Geography
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 47839462
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132509105003