I can't comment on this very much, but I do know where it is published -- it's in an edited volume titled "The Anthropology of Breastfeeding," edited by Vanessa Maher (who lives in Italy). The chapter on Iceland is one of the chapters. I read this book years ago when it first came out -- it is packed away somewhere in the garage and I can't recall any of the particulars about the Iceland chapter except perhaps that there was little/no evidence to back up what she was saying. There was a chapter on sub-Saharan Africa that was awful -- arguing that women there had so much work to do and were so malnourished that it was ridiculous to think that they should also breastfeed their children, and that it made much more sense for them to feed formula. I guess the author didn't realize that if they did that, their children would be much more likely to die, *and* that if they didn't breastfeed they wouldn't have lactational amenorrhea so their fecundity would return and they'd get pregnant again a lot sooner. As I recall, the basic premise of the book, except for Panter-Brick's chapter on Nepal, was that women needed to be *liberated* from their biology and not be expected to breastfeed because it was too taxing and exploitative of them. The book in general, with the exception of the excellent chapter by Catherine Panter-Brick (of Durham University, UK) was uniformly panned by anthropologists. I recall that Penny Van Esterik (of York University, Canada) wrote a blistering review of it for American Anthropologist. Kathy Dettwyler _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html