Is Breast Best? Quotes

“The feeding of babies takes place in what I call a “risk culture” marked by the constant production of scientific information about risks, especially health risks, and a pervasive neoliberal sentiment that every individual has a personal responsibility to make sense of this information, prevent health problems, and act as a good citizen.”
― Joan B. Wolf, Is Breast Best?: Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

“Whereas classical liberals seek maximum freedom from government, neoliberal individuals are perpetually responsive to the state’s engineering of their environment. In the former, government is idealized to the extent that it stays out of people’s lives, thereby maximizing individual choice; in the latter, the state creates the conditions that enable people to choose to behave in ways it has determined are best for the collective good,”
― Joan B. Wolf, Is Breast Best?: Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood