The Milky Way showing in Ottawa
The Milky Way will be shown as part of the Choice! A Birth and Baby Film Festival on Friday, November 21, 2014 at 19:00 at St. Paul’s university. There is a presentation by Gisèle Gobeil before the film at 18:15 and a discussion panel afterwards.
“The Milky Way is a documentary exposé about Breastfeeding in America. Our mission is to restore the Phenomenon of the Nursing Mother to the cultural landscape of America.”
In the most successful ad campaign in history, formula companies convinced mothers to trade in their breasts for bottles, and the baby bottle swiftly became the most recognizable symbol of infancy. The phenomenon of the nursing mother has all but disappeared from our cultural landscape as the sexual breast supplanted the mothering breast. The simple act of nursing a baby engenders a plethora of reactions from society, especially when done in public.