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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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