Susan Falls is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design and author of Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds.

“Among the best ethnographies I’ve read in more than thirty-five years of doing, thinking, and writing anthropology. It is an important and impressive book about a little-known social phenomenon in the United States.”-Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University and 2013 Ander Retzius Gold Medal Laureate in Anthropology “This very readable book breaks all the stereotypes about who shares human milk and why. Susan Falls’s examination of a breast milk sharing network in the American South uses evocative words and images to rethink kinship, sharing, and nurturing practices among mothers.”-Penny Van Esterik, professor of anthropology at York University “Submerged in a world of liquid gold, this anthropology tells a tale of new family constellations in a moment when the nation itself is in search of nutrition.”-Aleksandra Wagner, assistant professor of sociology at the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School

• List of Illustrations    Preface    Acknowledgments    List of Abbreviations    Introduction: White Gold    Chapter One. Milk Moves    Chapter Two. A Complicated Gift    Chapter Three. Breast Milk Is Best    Chapter Four. Lactivism    Chapter Five. Economic Matters    Chapter Six. Free Space    Notes    References    Index

Susan Falls is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design and author of Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds.

“Among the best ethnographies I’ve read in more than thirty-five years of doing, thinking, and writing anthropology. It is an important and impressive book about a little-known social phenomenon in the United States.”-Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University and 2013 Ander Retzius Gold Medal Laureate in Anthropology “This very readable book breaks all the stereotypes about who shares human milk and why. Susan Falls’s examination of a breast milk sharing network in the American South uses evocative words and images to rethink kinship, sharing, and nurturing practices among mothers.”-Penny Van Esterik, professor of anthropology at York University “Submerged in a world of liquid gold, this anthropology tells a tale of new family constellations in a moment when the nation itself is in search of nutrition.”-Aleksandra Wagner, assistant professor of sociology at the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School

• List of Illustrations    Preface    Acknowledgments    List of Abbreviations    Introduction: White Gold    Chapter One. Milk Moves    Chapter Two. A Complicated Gift    Chapter Three. Breast Milk Is Best    Chapter Four. Lactivism    Chapter Five. Economic Matters    Chapter Six. Free Space    Notes    References    Index

Susan Falls is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design and author of Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds.

“Among the best ethnographies I’ve read in more than thirty-five years of doing, thinking, and writing anthropology. It is an important and impressive book about a little-known social phenomenon in the United States.”-Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University and 2013 Ander Retzius Gold Medal Laureate in Anthropology “This very readable book breaks all the stereotypes about who shares human milk and why. Susan Falls’s examination of a breast milk sharing network in the American South uses evocative words and images to rethink kinship, sharing, and nurturing practices among mothers.”-Penny Van Esterik, professor of anthropology at York University “Submerged in a world of liquid gold, this anthropology tells a tale of new family constellations in a moment when the nation itself is in search of nutrition.”-Aleksandra Wagner, assistant professor of sociology at the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School

• List of Illustrations    Preface    Acknowledgments    List of Abbreviations    Introduction: White Gold    Chapter One. Milk Moves    Chapter Two. A Complicated Gift    Chapter Three. Breast Milk Is Best    Chapter Four. Lactivism    Chapter Five. Economic Matters    Chapter Six. Free Space    Notes    References    Index