Sunday, July 02, 2006

Nursing mom's protest at mall no secret (The Providence Journal)

A Warwick woman calls attention to the rights of breast-feeding women, in the window of Victoria's Secret in Providence.

PROVIDENCE -- Motherhood was on display in the window of Victoria's Secret at the Providence Place mall yesterday.

Next to mannequins in bikini underwear, a woman who could pass for a model parked her stroller, discreetly lifted her black tank top and nursed her four-month-old son.

The one-woman demonstration at the Providence Place mall's Victoria's Secret was part of a national "nurse-in" designed to raise awareness about the rights of breast-feeding mothers.

The image in the store window caught the eye of a man selling body lotion at a kiosk across the way. Yoav Stein, a 32-year-old Israeli living in Providence, pondered its meaning.

"It look like for me a connection between Victoria's Secret sexy image and motherhood," Stein said in a thick accent. "Mothers can be sexy, too!"




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