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.