rossini is the humanly practice that has sustained the human race as long as we've been around. but at times in the book there is a conflatioconflatio n or a slippage of lactivism and breast-feeding. i think perhaps as a consequence of the slippage, i'm not going to be so anal and go and point out the passages but we can do that later. perhaps the consequence of the slippage as points court and the has a tendency to blame breast-feeding for a series of social ills that are not breast-feeding fold. in political science terms would say she exaggerates the causal power of breast-feeding. so harassment of women in the workplace, women who want to take time off to pump or women who are exposing a breast in a closet. i don't think that is the fault of breast-feeding. i think that's the fault of sexism and generally supported position of women in the workplace more broadly. i think that the marginalization, the subjugation and the targeting of african-american women is not the fault of breast-feeding, but is a response to serve pervasive racism and breast-feeding is a vehicle to furthe