White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing

Author(s): Susan Falls

Series: Anthropology of Contemporary North America

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Year: 2017

ISBN: 9781496201898; 1496201892

Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, 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.