I have been asking myself this question a lot lately.  Why have the issues
surrounding breastfeeding inspired me to action?  Susan's post answers my
question.  Breastfeeding = Mother = Woman.

Alexis Neely, Esq.

Susan wrote:
>My own commitment to helping women and children nurse
>does not arise simply from a passion for
>breastfeeding.  Rather, it is the politics that
>inspire me.  Because breastfeeding is intrinsically
>female.  Because breastfeeding is a choice (albeit
>cultural), a deliberate act on the part of the mother
>(even in the best of circumstances) drawing that baby
>to the breast again and again.  It is precisely
>because breastfeeding is the one deliberate,
>exclusively female act that I find it to be the
>ultimate feminist issue.  Unlike conception,
>pregnancy, and birth which women should “own” but
>sometimes “deny” and “endure,” breastfeeding requires
>deliberation.  No one has yet to call me, through LLL
>or through my business name, to complain she is
>“accidentally” breastfeeding and doesn’t know how it
>happened…..
>


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