Female Fights: #10 Time's breast-feeding cover
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Amid the at-times volatile discussion of reproductive rights and rape, even breast-feeding came under debate. The image of a 3-year-old suckling on the breast of mom Jamie Lynne Grumet, a proponent of attachment parenting, ignited lookups for Time's breast-feeding cover. The outrage was as much over the orchestration of the photograph (having the boy breast-feed standing up) as the magazine's in-your-face challenge in its article title, "Are You Mom Enough?" Grumet had another breast-feeding cover shot at a much smaller periodical, Pathways to Family Wellness. The more modestly attired 26-year-old addressed the "polarization" that Time's cover had engendered, and focused on what in her blog Grumet called the "bizarre attention" given to a practice she said was touted by doctors and anthropologists.
