The Breasts as Constituents of Maternity: an outdated story?

Abstract

This paper revisits some of the dimensions that allow us to situate historically the process
that Marilyn Yalom (1997) has called "politicization of women's breasts". In addition,
information from educational material used in the National Campaign for the Incentive
of Breastfeeding will be discussed. The paper also relates the knowledge and practices
that make up the concept of motherhood and the exercise of motherhood in the previously
mentioned campaign with this historical process in order to c1aim that contemporary
life has been influencing a new process or politicization of motherhood and
breastfeeding practices.