Disclaimer: I’m about to get all social work-y and academic on you today. I’m playing student as I examine social oppression its relationship with breastfeeding and formula feeding in Canada. Recent health promotion campaigns have encouraged people to adopt healthier lifestyles (quit smoking, breastfeed, eat well, etc.) but less attention has been given to promoting [...]
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Since 1971 August 26th has been Women’s Equality Day. Although this was a great leap in history for women, we are still faced with rampant sexism today. Women are discriminated against for many reasons. In North America and Britain and throughout many other parts of the developed world, breastfeeding can be one of them. It [...]
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A few months ago there was a piece in our local paper about how the Canadian Human Rights Commission (HRC) shouldn’t be used to protect the rights of breastfeeding moms to nurse in public. The slightly right-of-center male youth who writes a political opinion piece each week was specifically referring to two women (Manuela Valle [...]
