Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food

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What is milk? Who is it for, and what work does it do? This collection of articles bring together an exciting group of the world's leading scholars from different disciplines to provide commentaries on multiple facets of the production, consumption, understanding and impact of milk on society. The book frames the emerging global discussion around philosophical and critical theoretical engagements with milk. In so doing, various chapters bring into consideration an awareness of animals, an aspect which has not yet been incorporated in these debates within these disciplines so far. This brand new research from scholars includes writing from an array of perspectives, including jurisprudence, food law, history, geography, art theory, and gender studies. It will be of use to professionals and researchers in such disciplines as anthropology, visual culture, cultural studies, development studies, food studies, environment studies, critical animal studies, and gender studies. Dedication Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Foreword • Peter J. Atkins Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Drinking Milk: Histories and Representations 1 More than Food: Animals, Men, and Supernatural Lactation in Occidental Late Middle Ages • Chloé Maillet 2 Feminized Protein: Meaning, Representations, and Implications • Carol J. Adams 3 Growing a Nation: Milk Consumption in India since the Raj • Andrea S. Wiley Part Two: Making Milk: Technologies and Economies 4 Unreliable Matriarchs • Melanie Jackson and Esther Leslie 5 The Mechanical Calf: On the Making of a Multispecies Machine • Richie Nimmo 6 Milk, Adulteration, Disgust: Making Legal Meaning • Yofi Tirosh and Yair Eldan 7 Markets in Mothers’ Milk: Virtue or Vice, Promise or Problem? • Julie P. Smith Part Three: Queering Milk: Male Feeding and Plant Milk 8 The Lactating Man • Mathilde Cohen 9 “Cow’s Milk is for Calves, Breastmilk is for Babies.” Alfred Bosworth’s Reconstituted Milk and the Women Who Innovated Infant Feeding Amid an American Health • Crisis Hannah Ryan 10 Plant Milk: From Obscurity to Visions of a Post-dairy Society Tobias Linné and Ally • McCrow-Young 11 Critical Ecofeminism: Milk Fauna and Flora • Greta Gaard Part Four: Thinking about Plant Milk 12 Milk and Meaning: Puzzles in Posthumanist Method • Jessica Eisen 13 DIY Plant Milk: A Recipe-manifesto and Method of Ethical Relations, Care, and Resistance • Matilda Arvidsson Notes Bibliography Index