Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy

by Elizabeth Dixon Whitaker

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In Italy as in other Western societies, the medicalization of basic biological functions contributes to the loss of personal confidence in the care of the body. Measuring Mamma's Milk analyzes the medicalization of maternity through a study of breastfeeding practices over a century of changes in socioeconomic organization, family life, and health beliefs.During the pivotal...more

Hardcover, 368 pages

Published June 9th 2000 by University of Michigan Press

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