Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: White Gold
Chapter One. Milk Moves
Chapter Two. A Complicated Gift
Chapter Three. Breast Milk Is Best
Chapter Four. Lactivism
Chapter Five. Economic Matters
Chapter Six. Free Space
Notes
References
Index