Visiting Scholar: Professor Linda Fentiman, Spring 2010
Professor Fentiman joined the Center as a Visiting Scholar for spring 2010 while on sabbatical from Pace University School of Law where she teaches Contracts, Criminal Law, and Public Health Law. Professor Fentiman served as the Director of the Health Law and Policy Program at Pace and developed the Pace Health Law Distance Education Program, the first asynchronous health law distance learning program for lawyers and health care professionals.
Professor Fentiman writes in the areas of health and criminal law, with a current focus on fetal protection laws and the commodification of breast milk. Her work has looked from a comparative law perspective at the tendency of the United States to criminalize women who are addicted to drugs during pregnancy. At the Center, she pursued research that expands upon her previous writings in the area of mothering, reproductive rights, and essentialist stereotyping of women.
March 20, 2010: Professor Linda Fentiman attended the 5th Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposium: Informing Public Health Approaches, and spoke on “Marketing Mother’s Milk: Commodification of Breastfeeding and the New Markets for Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding.” Sponsored by the Center for Women’s Health and Wellness, UNC Greensboro Carolina Breastfeeding Institute and UNC Chapel Hill, the symposium sought to identify and analyze how public health approaches to breastfeeding might be informed by feminist insights to develop comprehensive, politically knowledgeable, and culturally sensitive interventions.