Hi all. I was talking on the phone yesterday to Marylynn Salmon, the author of the article on breastfeeding in early modern U.S. and England, and she said that earlier this week they had a "nurse-in" on the steps of the courthouse in Northampton, Massachusetts to protest a woman being harassed for breastfeeding. The woman had been nursing her two-month-old in court and an "officer of the court" told her she had to leave, that it was inappropriate to nurse in court. Marylynn said there was a big turnout of women and babies for the protest. Maybe now Massachusetts will join the list of other states that protects mothers against this sort of thing. Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University e-mail to [log in to unmask] (409) 845-5256 (409) 778-4513