View source for Breastfeeding, nursing, breast milk in SF

Stories Portraying Breastfeeding or Breast Milk:

* [[Piers Anthony]]. "In the Barn" in ''Again, Dangerous Visions'' edited by [[Harlan Ellison]] (human women treated as cows)
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]. [[The Spirit Ring]] ([[1992]])
* [[David Brin]]. "Piecework" in ''Interzone'', Jan./Feb. 1990 (human women used to produce industrial supplies through birth and breast milk)
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]. [[''Walk to the End of the World'']] (cheese made of human breast milk)
* [[Hiromi Goto]]. "Tales From the Breast" in ''Ms. Magazine,'' Volume VII, Number 2 (Sept./Oct. 1996)
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. ''The Notebooks of Lazarus Long'' (adult man nurses from mother)
* [[Nalo Hopkinson]]. ''Brown Girl in the Ring'' (woman nurses child)
* [[Ira Levin]]. ''Rosemary's Baby'' (nursing at end of story)
* [[Walter M. Miller]],  "Vengeance for Nikolai" in ''No Limits,'' edited by Joseph W. Ferman (Ballantine 1964) [refugee woman poisons breast milk to kill colonializing general]]
* [[Toni Morrison]]. ''Beloved''
* [[Theodore Sturgeon]]. ''Some of Your Blood''
* [[John Varley]]. [["Options"]] in ''Blue Champagne'' (woman nursing her child)
* [[Élisabeth Vonarburg]]. ''The Silent City''
* "M is for the Many"

Of course, it's not SF, but perhaps one of the most famous breastfeeding scenes in literature is in John Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath''.


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