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Abstract ‘Got Milk?’ considers the author's own commitment to and experience of breastfeeding as a mother/intellectual, examining ways of theorizing embodiment and complex bio-social practices while also showing just how complicated living/embodying feminist STS theory can be. Many breastfeeding advocates are naïve about nature, technology, and gender issues, and many feminist STS scholars focus on the pregnant body, rather than the lactating body, to discuss gender, technology, and embodiment. Pro-breastfeeding materials often represent breastfeeding as an organic practice free from the intervention of medical experts and technologies. The author's experiences of the physical difficulties of breastfeeding, the management of breastfeeding by medical experts, the lack of social support for the practice, and the lack of a non-essentialist feminist discourse about the importance of breastfeeding left her wondering on what grounds she could and should justify her commitment to breastfeed her children. Ultimately, recognizing that breastfeeding is an embodied practice that is not free from technological intervention or other social and political contexts can counteract the romanticized, essentialized representations of breastfeeding for a stronger, if more contingent, ‘cyborg’ breastfeeding advocacy. Keywords: Breastfeedingmaternal bodymotheringfeminist theorySTS Acknowledgements The author wishes to thank Wyatt Galusky, Sandra B. Schneider, and the anonymous reviewers for Science as Culture for their helpful comments on this essay. She would also like to thank Bernice Hausman whose work, and whose approach to work and mothering, inspired her own experiences as a mother/intellectual. Notes In her book, Technologies of the Gendered Body, Anne Balsamo Citation(1996) includes a chapter called ‘Feminism for the Incurably Informed’, referencing the cyberpunk novel Synners by Pat Cadigan. On this see Gregory et al. Citation(2005). Baby Milk Action is the organization that led the boycott. See their history and current claims on their website, available at: http://www.babymilkaction.org/ (accessed 24 June 2009). Shannon Sullivan Citation(2001) advocates a feminist pragmatist view of embodied experience and attributes this unease with the lack of certain foundations or absolute truth that pragmatists understand; however, I would say feminist STS scholars have this same unease on any matter about nature and the body because we have dismissed the possibility of any absolute truth about them. I am borrowing the concept of ‘patriarchal bargain’ from research on women married to conservative Christian men in the Promise Keepers movement (Wilcox, Citation2004). Wilcox (Citation2004, p. 9) acknowledges borrowing the term ‘patriarchal bargain’ from the 1997 conference paper by Connie Anderson and Michael A. Messner.