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Nighttime Breastfeeding

An American Cultural Dilemma

Cecília Tomori (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-828-8 (ISBN)

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New parents in the United States are caught between responding to infant needs for closeness and breastfeeding, and cultural and medical norms that emphasize solitary sleep. This anthropological investigation shows that nighttime closeness and breastfeeding are the evolutionary and cross-cultural norm, but recent sociocultural shifts produced novel ideals of separation. The book uncovers how breastfeeding parents rework these cultural ideals. In this new edition, the author describes shifting medical guidance that increasingly supports breastfeeding yet remains largely separated from infant sleep guidance. The volume also provides a path towards more equitable approaches to nighttime infant care grounded in reproductive justice.

Cecília Tomori is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. She is the co-author of the 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding and is the co-editor of two additional books, Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches (Routledge 2018), and The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction (2022).

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-828-8 / 1805398288
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-828-8 / 9781805398288
Zustand	Neuware