Breastfeeding and sexual difference
Queering Irigaray
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robyn Lee (0000-0002-2530-5957, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-94 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464700117742876 |
| OpenAlex | W2782005335 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 38 |
It is commonly assumed that only women, and in particular women who have recently given birth, are able to breastfeed. However, through induced lactation, adoptive mothers, fathers and trans people have begun breastfeeding with greater frequency. Although breastfeeding is often regarded as a paradigmatic example of sexual difference, it actually exposes the instability of binary categories of sex. Luce Irigaray insists that sexual difference demands a new poetics, a language that is dynamic and fluid, capable of expressing difference while always keeping open the possibility of transformation and change. This article extends Irigaray's work in order to theorise breastfeeding from a perspective that is both feminist and queer
Art · Breastfeeding · Developmental psychology · Linguistics · Poetics · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sexual difference · Sociology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · French Literature and Critical Theory · Gender Studies · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre
Invisible Lives
At the breast
Feminism, Breasts and Breast-Feeding
This Sex Which is Not One
Sharing the World
Sexuate difference, ontological difference
When Couples Become Parents
Family Man
Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory
Gender Trouble
The Use, Perceived Effectiveness and Safety of Herbal Galactagogues During Breastfeeding
Irigaray's Body Symbolic
Breastfeeding as headwork
The Quiet Revolution
The Well-Tempered Breast
A Queer and Embodied Translation
Of care and commodities
Relational, and strange
Why Mammals are Called Mammals
Who feeds children? A child's-eye-view of caregiver feeding patterns among the Aka foragers in Congo
From Political to Realist Essentialism
Using Gender to Undo Gender
Thinking through breasts
And the One Doesn't Stir without the Other
Expressionists of the Twenty-First Century
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |