{"product_id":"white-gold-stories-of-breast-milk-sharing-9780803277212","title":"White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWomen have shared breast milk for eons, but in \u003cem\u003eWhite Gold\u003c\/em\u003e, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing \"white gold\"--seen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substance--is a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, \u003cem\u003eWhite Gold \u003c\/em\u003eshows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Falls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803277212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Falls\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design and author of \u003ci\u003eClarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40779916247155,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":110.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a810c9b9-62f5-415c-ab64-d199ac7f61e9.jpg?v=1680618135","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/white-gold-stories-of-breast-milk-sharing-9780803277212","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}