1st Edition
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature Latching On
Introduction
1. Caroline Kirkland’s Pioneer Women and the Busy Breast
2. Breastfeeding as Good Husbandry in Willa Cather’s Fiction
3. Women’s Utopias and the Problem of Breastfeeding
4. The Passions of Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich’s Breastfeeding Mothers
5. Nursing an Eco-Maternal Ethics: Maggie Nelson and Camille Dungy
Conclusion
Work Cited
Index
Biography
Wendy Whelan-Stewart is Associate Professor of English and the coordinator of the English Master of Arts Program at McNeese State University. She received her doctorate in American Literature, with a minor in Feminist Theory and Women's Studies, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She teaches American literature and focuses her research on contemporary North American women writers.
