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A letter to the editor in response to a newspaper column bashing public breastfeeding. From 2007. Click on the link above to open.
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INSIDE THE MIND OF KATHY DETTWYLER
- Curriculum Vitae 2014
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Essays, Letters to the Editor, PowerPoints
- Loss of oestrus and concealed ovulation in primates
- Muslim Americans and Terrorist Attacks in the US
- Is Breastfeeding Advocacy Anti-Feminist?
- "A Worldwide Average Age of Weaning?" -- or "That Pesky 4.2 Years Figure"
- "Breastfeeding as a Human Rights Issue"
- Breastfeeding vs. Lactation (2005) Why a child nursing from a non-lactating mother is not child abuse
- Why breastfeeding is more than just milk (X-rated, for references to sex)
- Examples of societies where children nurse for many years
- Response to Rhonda Graham's column bashing moms who breastfeed in public
- PowerPoint Presentations on Breasts
- "Court Letter" -- no longer available -- electronic copy, words of wisdom from Elizabeth Baldwin
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Scholarly Publications (peer-reviewed)
- 2004 "When to Wean: Biological vs. Cultural Perspectives" -- Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology
- 1998-99 "Evolutionary Medicine & Breastfeeding: Implications for Research & Pediatric Advice" -- Skomp Lecture, Indiana Unversity
- 1995 "Beauty & the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States"
- 1995 "A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for the Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations"
- 1992 "Infant Feeding Practices and Growth" -- Annual Review of Anthropology; coauthored with Claudia Fishman
- 1992 "Nutritional Status of Adults in Rural Mali"
- 1991 "Paleopathology and Compassion" AJPA
- 1989 "Styles of Infant Feeding: Parental/Caretaker Control of Food Consumption in Young Children" -- American Anthropologist
- 1988 "More than Nutrition: Breastfeeding in Urban Mali" -- Medical Anthropology Quarterly
- 1987 "Breastfeeding and Weaning in Mali: Cultural Context and Hard Data," Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 633-644
- 1986 "Infant Feeding in Mali, West Africa: Variations in Belief and Practice" SSM
- Books & Documentaries
- Contact
- Book Reviews (reviews written by Kathy Dettwyler)
- Terrains of Ignorance -- a lecture by Dr. Marlys Witte (1995)
- Blog
