La Leche League: At the Crossroads of Medicine, Feminism, and Religion
Since the 1970s, breastfeeding has inspired battles among moms, doctors, and parenting experts. Ward's study is the first to examine La Leche League, the chief organization advocating breastfeeding, as a religious movement arising within--and outside--traditional feminism. The League's founders were all Catholic, and imbued with 1950s theology about the Catholic family (specifically, that breastfeeding was a female embodiment of Aquinas's natural law theory, and that the Virgin Mary represented an icon of motherhood). Although the League drew on scientific information about infant nutrition, it "held a religious rather than secular view of the family"--sharing the Catholic church's belief that children were central to married life. Ward, a former League leader, balances her sympathy for many League teachings with trenchant and dispassionate observations about the theological underpinnings of the movement. A provocative read for anyone interested in the "breastfeeding wars" would find it.
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