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What is “Militant Lactivism?”

More than a simple parenting choice, breastfeeding becomes a matter of feminist and activist discussion in Charlotte Faircloth’s book Militant Lactivism? published in March 2013 by Berghahn Books. Below, the author introduces us to the movement for public breastfeeding with an excerpt from her book.

 

Militant Lactivism? is a book based on research with women in London and Paris who are members of La Leche League (LLL), an international breastfeeding support organisation. The text focuses on the accounts of a small but significant population of mothers within LLL who practise ‘attachment parenting’. This is a style of care which endorses close parent-child proximity and typically involves long-term, on-cue breastfeeding, baby ‘wearing’ and co-sleeping as part of a ‘family bed’ philosophy. It is becoming increasingly popular in both the US and the UK, and has recently received a lot of publicity following a particularly provocative TIME magazine feature, amongst other coverage.

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Hot Off the Presses – New Book Releases

SilvermanPalimpsesticNewly released titles from Berghahn’s film studies, cultural studies, and anthropology lists:

Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities, Hariz Halilovich

The Colours of the Empire: Racialized Representations During Portuguese Colonialism, Patrícia Ferraz de Matos

The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent, Suzanne Rinner

Palimpsestic Memory: The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film, Max Silverman

Hot Off the Presses – New Paperback Releases

JerzyNewly released paperbacks from Berghahn:

The Ju/’Hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence: Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa, Megan Biesele and Robert K. Hitchcock

Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist, Ewa Mazierska

Avant-Garde to New Wave Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties, Jonathan L. Owen

Anthropologies of Education: A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling, edited by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt

Hot Off the Presses – New Book Releases

Newly released paperbacks from Berghahn:

Constructing Charisma: Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe, edited by Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi
Comics in French: The Bande Dessinée in Context, Laurence Grove
News as Culture: Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions, Ursula Rao
Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification, Nigel Rapport
State Practices and Zionist Images: Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel, David A. Wesley, with a foreword by Emanuel Marx
The Ethnographic Self as Resource: Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography, edited by Peter Collins and Anselma Gallinat

Hot Off the Presses – New Book Releases

Newly released titles from Berghahn’s history and anthropology lists:

The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture, edited by Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg and Simon Shaw-Miller

Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, edited by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher

A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000: Recovery and Transformation after Two World Wars, Hartmut Kaelble

Two Sides of One River: Nationalism and Ethnography in Galicia and Portugal, António Medeiros

The Golden Chain: Family, Civil Society and the State, edited by Jürgen Nautz, Paul Ginsborg, and Ton Nijhuis