Nighttime Breastfeeding (eBook)

An American Cultural Dilemma

Cecília Tomori (Autor)

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2014
316 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-436-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Nighttime for many new parents in the United States is fraught with the intense challenges of learning to breastfeed and helping their babies sleep so they can get rest themselves. Through careful ethnographic study of the dilemmas raised by nighttime breastfeeding, and their examination in the context of anthropological, historical, and feminist studies, this volume unravels the cultural tensions that underlie these difficulties. As parents negotiate these dilemmas, they not only confront conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and solitary infant sleep, but also larger questions about cultural and moral expectations for children and parents, and their relationship with one another.

Autor

Cecília Tomori is a medical anthropologist who has worked as a health services researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and is currently a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Embodied Cultural Dilemmas: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep
Chapter 2. Struggles Over Authoritative Knowledge and “Choice” in Breastfeeding and Infant Sleep in the U.S.
Chapter 3. Making Breastfeeding Parents in Childbirth Education Courses
Chapter 4. Dispatches from the Moral Minefield of Breastfeeding
Chapter 5. Breastfeeding as Men’s “Kin Work”
Chapter 6. Breastfeeding Babies in the Nest: Producing Children, Kinship, and Moral Imagination in the House
Chapter 7. Time to Sleep: Nighttime Breastfeeding and Capitalist Temporal Regimes

Conclusion

Appendixes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
• Reihe/Serie: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Medical Anthropology • Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies and Sexuality
• ISBN-10: 1-78238-436-7 / 1782384367
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-436-6 / 9781782384366