Breastfeeding in American Women's Literature: Latching On - Paperback

by Wendy Whelan-Stewart (Author)

By cataloguing scenes in which characters breastfeed across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, this book studies the beliefs, fantasies, and concerns betrayed by their writers, and it charts the many consistent and competing cultural ideologies that accrue over the years and find expression in breastfeeding scenes

Author Biography

Wendy Whelan-Stewart is Associate Professor of English and the coordinator of the English Master of Arts Program at McNeese State University. She received her doctorate in American Literature, with a minor in Feminist Theory and Women's Studies, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She teaches American literature and focuses her research on contemporary North American women writers.