Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that the International Breastfeeding Journal recently published its first thematic series on Breastfeeding and feminism: Reproductive health, rights and justice. Edited by Dr Miriam H Labbok, Dr Paige Hall Smith and Emily C Taylor, the articles in the series focus on nine core discussions held at the third annual Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposia (2007).
The series aims to continue the momentum initiated at the symposia in motivating involvement in promoting breastfeeding as a woman's reproductive health, rights and justice concern. The symposia are designed to raise the profile of breastfeeding within the women's advocacy and feminist studies' communities, and to increase recognition among breastfeeding supporters that breastfeeding promotion could receive more socio-political support by partnering with those concerned with women's reproductive health, rights and justice, women's economic advancement, and the elimination of social, economic and health inequities. The third symposium (2007) sought to build dialogue and increase communications between and among these diverse communities.
An open access, peer-reviewed online journal International Breastfeeding Journal seeks to address all aspects of breastfeeding, including identifying women who are at increased risk of not breastfeeding; the impediments to breastfeeding and the health effects of not breastfeeding for infants and their mothers; interventions to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration; and the management of breastfeeding problems. All articles in the journal will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central and Scopus.
