Julia’s Reviews > Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy > Status Update

"Public health campaigns that promote pumping are thus overturning the expectation that breastfeeding depends on contact between a mother and her baby. [P]olicy makers build [a] defense against arguments for paid federally mandated maternity leave. Who needs lavish European-style maternity leave when a mother's body is no longer the only vehicle through which the magic elixir, mother's milk, can be delivered?"