Breastfeeding and Feminism 2010:
Informing Public Health Approaches

March 20 2010
Weatherspoon Art Museum
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro  NC

Sponsored by
Center for Women’s Health and Wellness, UNC Greensboro
Carolina Breastfeeding Institute, UNC Chapel Hill

CALL FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS: We are currently accepting 250-word abstracts for poster presentation on related topics and issues. Click here for the poster presentation announcement. The deadline for submitting posters for consideration was February 15, 2010.

Registration is $25.00
Register by completing the registration form and mailing it with your check to:
[make check payable to Center for Women’s Health and Wellness]

The Center for Women’s Health and Wellness
Attn: Sheryl Coley
School of Health and Human Performance
University of North Carolina Greensboro
401 HHP Building, PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

Symposium hotel
UPDATE (2/15/10): There are only 4 rooms left at the Greensboro Marriott downtown. Rates at the Greensboro Marriott are $105.00 though February 15, 2010. Call 336-379-8000 or 800-228-9290 and tell them you are with the symposium. Additional rooms are available at the Doubletree Hotel Greensboro for $99.00 per night. You can call 336-292-4004 to make your reservations at the Doubletree Hotel.

We will have a reception and gathering for dinner (dutch treat) on Friday night.  If you are attending the reception and / or dinner on Friday, please note your choice on the registration form.

Conference Schedule
Registration and Continental Breakfast - 7:45 am - 8:30 am
Speaker Presentations and Q&A - 8:30 am - 10:15 am
Break - 10:15 am - 10:35 am
Speaker Presentations and Q&A - 10:35 am - 12:30 pm
Lunch (on your own at nearby restaurants) and art gallery viewing - 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Speaker Presentations and Q&A - 1:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Break - 3:55 pm - 4:15 pm
Panel Q&A - 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm

Purpose of Symposium: Since 2005, academic scholars, practitioners, and activists have gathered together for a regular symposium on Breastfeeding and Feminism. The 2007 and 2009 symposia was funded in part by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Women’s Health. Over the years, the symposia have illuminated major constraints mothers experience as they seek to breastfeed their children in the 21st century. Breastfeeding and Feminism 2010 seeks to identify and analyze how public health approaches to breastfeeding might be informed by feminist insights to develop comprehensive, politically knowledgeable, and culturally sensitive interventions. The 2010 symposium speakers come from diverse academic and professional backgrounds and will speak from a range of perspectives on how gendered power dynamics, gender inequality and constraints across the social ecology influences women’s decisions about how they feed their babies and their abilities to breastfeed as long as they want.

Here is a list of topics and speakers:

• "Breastfeeding and Gender Inequality" - Paige Hall Smith
• "Why we need a feminist approach to breastfeeding" - Bernice Hausman
• "Breastfeeding and public health: where we are now" - Miriam Labbok
• "The role of sexual abuse survival in women’s breastfeeding experiences" - Emily Taylor
• "Violence and Infant Feeding: Risk Management Strategies of Low-Income Women" - Nancy Chin
• "Breastfeeding in Public: Women’s bodies and the public control of sexuality" - Sally Dowling and David Pontin
• "The global professionalization of lactation consulting" - Aimee Eden
• "Marketing Mother’s Milk: Commodification of Breastfeeding and the New Markets for Breastfeeding and Infant feeding" - Linda Fentiman
• "From Selflessness to Self-Care: Health Promotion through Ars Erotica" - Fiona Giles
• "Infant feeding in the margins: morality, rationality, and experience" - Danielle Groleau and Lindwe Sibeko
• "Sexual or Maternal Breasts: A Feminist View on the Contested Right to Breastfeed Publicly " - Carol Grace Hurst
• "Empowerment of regulation? Exploring the implications of women's perspectives on pumping and expressing breast milk" - Sally Johnson & Dawn Leeming
• “Preparing women to breastfeed: The teaching of breastfeeding in prenatal classes” - Abigail Locke
• “The Cultural Contexts of Guilt” - Erin Taylor and Lori Ebert Wallace
• "The impact of obstetrical practices on women and on breastfeeding" - Helene Vadeboncoeur
• "Breastfeeding across cultures: dealing with difference" - Penny Van Esterik
• "Pediatrics and Maternal Authority" - Jacqueline Wolf
• "Race, Racism, and Disparities in Breastfeeding" - Joan Dodgson
• "Rethinking the importance of social class: The role of media on the body stability of pregnant women " - N. Danielle Duckett
• "Breastfeeding and "The Baby Block": Using “reality TV” to effectively promote breastfeeding" - Katherine Foss
• "The Context for Breastfeeding: The Impact of Workplace Practices on Breastfeeding Experiences and Disparities among Women”- Amanda Lubold and Louise M. Roth
• "Working out Work: Maintaining Employment and Breastfeeding" - Deborah McCarter-Spaulding & Jennifer Lucas
• "Mothers: Breadwinners, Milk-makers, Caregivers" - Christine Mulford
• "Breastfeeding and the Gendering of Domestic Labor" - Phyllis Rippeyoung & Mary Noonan
• "How Women-Centered Approaches Contribute to an Increase of EBF Around the World" - Jennifer Yourkavitch

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