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What is the sociology of breast feeding?

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We all (even sociologists) react to others, to ideas, to objects based on the culture we live in. In this post, Bridget Welch attempts to take a big cultural step back to look at boobs in a new light. “Have you seen this? There's a breastfeeding doll. What's your opinion on that?” my husband says to me. read more

But the breast feeding cult is a display of status: I am rich enough to have a stay at home wife, and/or rich enough to have a husband who has asked me to have 2 or 3 kids, whom I plan to breast feed 2 to 5 years each. read more

Breastfeeding here becomes sexualised and bestowed with incestuous meanings, simply because the child is old enough ‘to remember’ gaining comfort and pleasure from his mother’s breast. The fact that his mother was slim, attractive, young, dressed in a hip manner in tight black jeans, and blonde, simply added to the sexualisation of the image. read more

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Sociology: Breastfeeding and society
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