Un bel silenzio non fu mai scritto
Italian
By (author): Akira Toriyama Alan Gibbons Alannah Moore Alexa Tewkesbury Amanda Lynn Aisling Andrea K Grove Ann Cleeves Asato Asato Belinda Bauer Bernie Lierow Brienna Rossiter Britannica Group Caryl Churchill Cassandra Clare Ching-He Huang Christopher Nolan Dave Canterbury David Almond Diane Lierow Dodie Kazanjian Dr. Seuss Evan Stanley Frank Erwich Georges T. Nehmetallah Hajime Isayama Holly Tucker Ian Flynn Jeanne Willis Jennie Allen John Donne John O'Keeffe Joshua Lewis Julie May Kalman Weiser Kate Morris Katsura Hoshino Kes Gray L. M. Montgomery Lea Wait Logan Williams Mary Maurice Druon Megan Fox Michael Greger Mike Payne Mike Rohde Naoki Urasawa Oscar Wilde Paige Towler Patricia Highsmith Ph.D. Jason A. Hunt R. J. Prescott Rob Pepper Rola Aylo Ross Carroll Simone St. James Susan Falls Takashi Nagasaki W. N. P. Barbellion Will Gompertz Yoshi Yoshitani Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Illustrated by: Andy Smith, Briony May Smith, Dani Padron, Dylan Gibson, Jim Field, Toyotarou
Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States.
Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing white goldseen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substanceis a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values.
Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.