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[quote=Anonymous]Great points:

Breastfeeding and the Effort to Re-Domesticate Women
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/push-back/201908/breastfeeding-and-the-effort-re-domesticate-women

"But the way that you can really tell that a goal of breastfeeding promotion is to return women to the home is how the “benefits” of breastfeeding have become tied to increasingly rigid breastfeeding behaviors. Efforts include the demonization of infant formula, the medicalization of breastmilk, the insistence that breastfed babies love their mothers more, and — the newest front — criticism of breastmilk pumping."

Breast-Feeding Extremists Are Even Worse Than You Thought
https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/12/the-breast-feeding-extremists-who-put-lactivism-ahead-of-protecting-babies-from-hiv.html

"...[b]I had no idea how much damage “lactivism” has done to women and children. [/b]To be clear, we’re not talking about simply encouraging breast-feeding—everyone agrees that breast-feeding is great when it works, even if it’s not the divine cure-all that its more ardent promoters claim it to be. Jung’s subject in Lactivism isn’t nursing itself, but [b]a strain of advocacy that prizes feeding babies breast milk above all else, no matter the cost to their mothers or, in some cases, the babies themselves.[/b] “I am not against breastfeeding,” writes Jung, who reports that she happily nursed her own babies. “I am against lactivism. I[b] am against using the particular infant-feeding practices of one privileged demographic to measure people who lack the resources to breastfeed—or prefer not to. I am against using a selective reading of medical literature to justify a public health issue. I am against using that public health issue to compel women to breastfeed and to punish those who don’t.”[/b][/quote]

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