White Gold

White Gold
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780803277212
ISBN-13 : 0803277210
Rating : 4/5 (210 Downloads)

Book Synopsis White Gold by : Susan Falls

Download or read book White Gold written by Susan Falls and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States. Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing “white gold”—seen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substance—is a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values. Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.


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