Breastfeeding, nursing, breast milk in SF
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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.