Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.
ISBN-13: 9781496201898. by Susan Falls. Author: Susan Falls. Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. 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. In this interdisciplinary account,White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.
Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. 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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