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Another Angle On Breastfeeding

Basic Books

Breasts and their owners and users have been hot topics in recent years. 

Medical authorities and advocates have spent years urging women to breastfeed their babies, with a long list of benefits supporting their efforts. 

Who could turn a probing eye toward motherhood and mother's milk?  Courtney Jung, for one, in her book Lactivism

Jung is a political scientist and a mother who breastfed her children; she took note of the passionate arguments in favor of the practice.  Which, she says, can be persuasively challenged.  She pulls out the data both pro and con for a discussion on The Exchange.   

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.