i am pleased to introduce courtney jung whose new book "lactivism" how feminists and fundamentalists, hippies and yuppies, and physicians and politicians made breastfeeding big business and bad policy" we are here to celebrate. the book was published last month in november. a professor of political science at university of toronto and has published two previous books in the moral force of indigenous politics, she has been a member in has received fellow's steps from the national endowment of of humanities. and the social science research council. to give an overview of her book and will respond with her remarks a professor and political science and the author of two books and inclusion without representation. >> in 2015 as day carnegie fellow with their international relations from stanford. before we began just won endorsement with of professor of philosophy and politics and those that make it obligatory and then with victim blaming. but courtney jung explains the social forces with the breast pump with the failure to provide workers with state maternity leave. "lactivism" is a must

lactivism is a social movement and prolitical project. breastfeeding is a human practice that has sustained to human race as long as we have been around. but at times in the book there is a conflation or slipage of lactivism and breastfeeding. i think as a consequence of the slipage and i will not be so anal and point out the passages -- we can do that later. perhaps as a consequence of the slippage at points courtney has a tendency to blame breastfeeding for social ills that are not breastfeeding's falls. so we would say she misspecifies the causal of breastfeeding. women who want to take off to time to pump or exposed in a work closet and that is not the effect of breastfeeding but the treatment of women in the workplace more broadly. i think the marginalization and targeting of african-american women is not the fault of breastfeeding but is a response to sort of pervasive racism and breastfeeding is merely the vehicle to further the racism. woman leaving the workforce is not a symptom of breastfeeding but another simpymptom of inequali