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Contamination and Contagion: Environmental Toxins, HIV/AIDS, and the Problem of the Maternal Body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Bernice L. Hausman
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Abstract

Contemporary global health crises that involve mothers necessarily invoke the varied cultural problematics of maternal embodiment. Examining breastfeeding in light of current concerns about maternal contagion and contamination, with special attention to HIV and environmental toxins, allows us to consider how ambivalence toward maternal embodiment affects the ways we address these health crises within which mothers figure so significantly.

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Hypatia , Volume 21 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Maternal Bodies , Winter 2006 , pp. 137 - 156
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Copyright © 2006 by Hypatia, Inc.

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