Breastfeeding and Bodily Transformations

The first tier makes possible and calls for a new means of probing conceptualizations of the lactating body existing before and alongside biomedicine's present day interpretation of it. The second tier, taking up this challenge, investigates pre-modern European medical representations of the lactating body and recent autobiographical writings of breastfeeding women in terms of their positioning of the lactating body as a locus of social expression, renewal, and change---an active agent in the reproduction and transformation of social members and forms.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Requejo, Jennifer Harris

Contributors dc:contributor

• Tim Liao

• Sociology, General

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3111632

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86201