Triangle Breastfeeding Alliance, Inc.

Registration is now open for the 5th symposium!  We are also accepting applications for poster presentations until February 1 2010.

Theme:  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

Registration is $25.00
Register by completing the registration form and mailing it with your check to: Registration form is available on our website www.uncg.edu/hhp/cwhw and is attached.

Make check payable to Center for Women’s Health and Wellness and mail to:

The Center for Women’s Health and Wellness

Attn: Sheryl Coley (slcoley@uncg.edu)
School of Health and Human Performance
University of North Carolina Greensboro
401 HHP Building, PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

By February 1 you can submit a 250-word abstract for a poster presentation and email to slcoley@uncg.edu (information form attached)

Here is a list of topics and speakers:

• “Violence and Infant Feeding: Risk Management Strategies of Low-Income Women” – Nancy Chin
• “Breastfeeding in Public: Mother’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
• “Gendered contexts and gendered constraints in public breastfeeding” – 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 E. 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
• Motherhood and employment (varied perspectives) – Heather Chase, Christine Mulford
• “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
• “Contextualizing the Breastfeeding Decision: The Impact of Workplace and Childcare Practices on Breastfeeding”- Amanda Lubold and Louise M. Roth
• “Working out Work: Maintaining Employment and Breastfeeding” – Deborah McCarter-Spaulding & Jennifer Lucas
• “The gendered status of motherhood or parenthood” – Phyllis Rippeyoung & Mary Noonan
• “How Women-Centered Approaches Contribute to an Increase of EBF Around the World” – Jennifer Yourkavitch

Symposium hotel
We will be staying at the Greensboro Marriott and having a reception and gathering for dinner (dutch treat) on Friday night.  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.

Purpose and history 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.

For more information contact Paige Smith (phsmith@uncg.edu) or Miriam Labbok (labbok@unc.edu).

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