Fiona Dykes

'Breast is best' is today’s prevailing mantra. However, women—particularly first-time mothers—frequently feel unsupported when they come to feed their baby. This new experience often takes place in the impersonal and medicalised surroundings of a hospital maternity ward where women are 'seen to' by overworked midwives. Using a UK-based ethnographic study and interview material, this book provides a new, radical, and...