EP48: Kimberly Seals Allers on How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding




MagaMama with Kimberly Ann Johnson: Sex, Birth and Motherhood show

Summary: How her book, The Big Letdown, explores the connections between medicine, big business and feminism and their effects on breastfeeding women today. How the environment we are currently in sets us up for failure. The importance of using our power as consumers to start dialogues with our care providers about breastfeeding and lactation. The ways feminism has let mothers down. The importance of re-centering mothers in the fight for reproductive justice and freedom.