Out of Milk

Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Lesley Frank

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"Did you ever go to bed and wonder if your child was getting enough to eat?" For food insecure mothers, the worry is constant, and babies are at risk of going hungry. Through compelling interviews, Lesley Frank answers the breastfeeding paradox: why women who can least afford to buy infant formula are less likely to breastfeed. She reveals that what and how infants are fed is linked to the social and economic status of those who feed them. She exposes the reality of food insecurity for formula-fed babies, the constraints limiting mothers' ability to breastfeed, and the lengths to which mothers must go to provide for their children. In a country that leaves the problem of food insecurity to charities, public policies are failing to support the most vulnerable populations.Out of Milk calls out the pressing need to establish the economic and social conditions necessary for successful breastfeeding and for accessible and safe formula feeding for families everywhere.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-07-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt400 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774862479

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Lesley Frank is an associate professor of sociology at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She is a leading scholar of infant food insecurity in Canada, with publications in the journals Food, Culture and Society; Food and Foodways; Canadian Food Studies; and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. She is the author of the annual Nova Scotia Family and Child Poverty Report Card and a steering member of Campaign 2000, a cross-Canada public education movement that works to increase public awareness of the levels and consequences of child and family poverty. Her work has been featured on CBC's The Current.

Foreword / Monika DuttIntroduction: The Invisibility of Infant Food Insecurity1 Doing Without: Household Food Insecurity and the Food Work of Mothers2 When Breastfeeding Works: A Food Security Measure 3 When Breastfeeding Fails: An Insecure Food System4 The Bottle for Baby: Formula Feeding in Food Insecure FamiliesConclusion: Implications for Research, Policy, and PracticeAppendix: Anatomy of the StudyNotes; Bibliography; Index