Making milk : the past, present and future of our primary food / edited by Mathilde Cohen and Yoriko Otomo.

Date:
2019
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Description

What is milk? Who is it for, and what work does it do? This collection of articles bring together an exciting group of the world's leading scholars from different disciplines to provide commentaries on multiple facets of the production, consumption, understanding and impact of milk on society. The book frames the emerging global discussion around philosophical and critical theoretical engagements with milk. In so doing, various chapters bring into consideration an awareness of animals, an aspect which has not yet been incorporated in these debates within these disciplines so far. This brand new research from scholars includes writing from an array of perspectives, including jurisprudence, food law, history, geography, art theory, and gender studies. It will be of use to professionals and researchers in such disciplines as anthropology, visual culture, cultural studies, development studies, food studies, environment studies, critical animal studies, and gender studies.

Publication/Creation

London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

Physical description

xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

More than food : animals, men, and supernatural lactation in occidental late middle ages / Chloé Maillet -- Feminized protein : meaning, representations, and implications / Carol J. Adams -- Growing a nation : milk consumption in India since the Raj / Andrea S. Wiley -- Unreliable matriarchs / Melanie Jackson and Esther Leslie -- The mechanical calf : on the making of a multispecies machine / Richie Nimmo -- Milk, adulteration, disgust : making legal meaning / Yofi Tirosh and Yair Eldan -- Markets in mothers' milk : virtue or vice, promise or problem? / Julie P. Smith -- The lactating man / Mathilde Cohen -- "Cow's milk is for calves, breastmilk is for babies." Alfred Bosworth's reconstituted milk and the women who innovated infant feeding amid an American health crisis / Hannah Ryan -- Plant milk : from obscurity to visions of a post-dairy society / Tobias Linné and Ally McCrow-Young -- Critical ecofeminism : milk fauna and flora / Greta Gaard -- Milk and meaning : puzzles in posthumanist method / Jessica Eisen -- DIY plant milk : a recipe-manifesto and method of ethical relations, care, and resistance / Matilda Arvidsson.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-290) and index.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9781350116320
  • 1350116327