Suckle desire: Sexuality and politics in contemporary lactivism

Authors

  • Ester Massó Guijarro Universidad de Granada (España)

Abstract

Breastfeeding has been part of a patriarchal narrative about motherhood throughout the history of Western thought. When this patriarchal narrative was linked to the capitalist reason after the current industrial and technological revolution, did result in a unique partnership with certain feminist approaches, reagents and even opposite to breastfeeding practice. However, far from a supposed female liberation, this interpretation in infant corporalities or mother-baby pairs
implies an uncritical assumption of the cultural domain patriarchal / capitalist on infant body (as precarious diverse, individualistic deviant), on one and; on the other hand, an uncritical oblivion of the powerful sexual-political implications of the nursing relationship, that emancipate it from adult sexuality (phallocentric, coition-centric) controlled and subordinated by men. Thereby, the recognition of desire present in infant corporalities, with two aspects of intimacy and politics, is claimed as the decolonization of the imaginary on breastfeeding to the present.

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Published

2014-11-05

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How to Cite

Massó Guijarro, E. (2014). Suckle desire: Sexuality and politics in contemporary lactivism. Antropología Experimental, 13. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/1841