>do you suppose it will be acceptable because this is actually a woman from
>EUROPE and she is a REFUGEE so it is OK???

You bet.  As I recall, *the same week* that TIME ran an article about
Deborah Norville's scandalous (but perfectly discreet) nursing
picture, it had a picture of an African woman, probably a refugee,
surrounded by all her meager possessions and nursing her baby with
totally exposed breast.  If the woman is black, homeless, third
world... then it's okay (and even advantageous) to show her
breastfeeding.  If she's upper class it's a scandal.

Here's my letter to TIME:

Perhaps you meant your cover to epitomize the deprivation and
displacement of Albanian mothers and children.  What it shows instead
is a woman with much to worry about, but not where her child's food
will come from, a woman who is producing a product with a value of
about $60 a day, and whose child, if s/he is more than a few weeks
old, has a better diet and better disease protection than most
American children of the same age.  This woman is not weakness.  She
is strength.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  feeling huffy in Ithaca, NY

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