Tainted Milk: Breastmilk, Feminisms and the Politics of Environmental Degradation
Shewprasad, Sharmila, Women & Environments International Magazine
TAINTED MILK: BREASTMILK, FEMINISMS AND THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION Boswell-Pene, Maia. (2006) State University of New York Press
Review by Sharmila Shewprasad
"Breastmilk is like the canary in the mine. Scientists often use samples of breastmilk to determine the condition of a local ecosystem because breastmilk contains pollutants that are not present in blood and urine samples."
(Boswell-Penc, 136)
As our environment becomes more toxic, higher and higher levels of chemical contaminants are found in human breastmilk. New York State-based author Maia Boswell-Penc looks at the reluctance of environmental, feminist and environmental justice …
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Publication information:
Article title: Tainted Milk: Breastmilk, Feminisms and the Politics of Environmental Degradation.
Contributors: Shewprasad, Sharmila - Author.
Magazine title: Women & Environments International Magazine.
Issue: 76/77
Publication date: Fall 2008.
Page number: 51.
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