The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding

Pediatricians say you should but it's okay if you don't. The hospital says, Breast is best, but...
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Author: Kimberly Seals Allers
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The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding by Allers, Kimberly Seals

The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding

Dhs. 202.07

The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding

Dhs. 202.07
Author: Kimberly Seals Allers
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Pediatricians say you should but it's okay if you don't. The hospital says, Breast is best, but sends you home with formula just in case. Your sister-in-law says, Of course you should! Your mother says, I didn't, and you turned out just fine. Celebrities are photographed nursing in public, yet breastfeeding mothers are asked to cover up in malls and on airplanes. Breastfeeding is a private act, yet everyone has an opinion about it. How did feeding our babies get so complicated?

Journalist and infant health advocate Kimberly Seals Allers breaks breastfeeding out of the realm of personal choice and shows our broader connection to an industrialized food system that begins at birth, the fallout of feminist ideals, and the federal policies that are far from family friendly. The Big Letdown uncovers the multibillion-dollar forces battling to replace mothers' milk and the failure of the medical establishment to protect infant health. Weaving together research and personal stories with original reporting on medicine, big pharma, and hospitals, Kimberly Seals Allers shows how mothers and babies have been abandoned by all the forces that should be supporting families from the start--and what we can do to help.

Author: Kimberly Seals Allers
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 01/24/2017
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781250026965


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 12/05/2016
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 117

About the Author
KIMBERLY SEALS ALLERS is an award-winning journalist, and leading breastfeeding commentator. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, CNN.com, Ladies Home Journal, The New York Daily News, Real Simple, Fortune, Pregnancy and many others. She has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, Anderson Cooper, Fox News and the Huckabee Show and NPR. Kimberly worked at Fortune, Essence, New York Post and The Times (of London), before turning to freelance work. She is the author of The Mocha Manual(R) series of books and the co-author of Giving Notice: Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace.


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