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Gabrielle Palmer

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The United Kingdom

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Health, Mind & Body, Women & Gender Studies, Parenting & Families

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Gabrielle Palmer is a nutritionist and a campaigner. She was a breastfeeding counsellor in the 1970s and helped establish the UK pressure group Baby Milk Action. In the early 1980s she lived and worked as a volunteer in Mozambique. She has written, taught and campaigned on infant feeding issues, particularly the unethical marketing of baby foods.
In the 1990s she co-directed the International Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy course at The Institute of Child Health in London until she went to live in China for two years. She has worked independently for various health and development agencies, including serving as HIV and Infant Feeding Officer for UNICEF New York. She recently worked at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine wh ...more

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Gabrielle Palmer’s books

Average rating: 4.47 · 634 ratings · 72 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business 4.46 avg rating — 515 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why the Politics of Breastfeeding Matter 4.58 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complementary Feeding: Nutrition, Culture and Politics 4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women’s household chores from the category of productive work and, for the first time, housewives were classified as unoccupied.”
― Gabrielle Palmer, The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business

tags: 1881, domesticity, occupation, sex-discrimination

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“Damaging hospital practices made breastfeeding a near-impossible procedure and only women with alternative sources of support and knowledge were able to do it.”
― Gabrielle Palmer, The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business

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“There are no memorials to the thousands of women who died prematurely through extreme physical hardship. These were the women who produced and serviced the workers who created the wealth and consequent power of Europe and North America.”
― Gabrielle Palmer, The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business

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