Ethnographies of breastfeeding : cultural contexts and confrontations /
Ethnographies of breastfeeding : cultural contexts and confrontations /
edited by Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom.
- xxiii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / The Embodied Experience of Breastfeeding and the Product São Paolo, Brazil / Demedicalizing Breast Milk: The Discourses, Practices and Identities of Informal Milk Sharing / Historical Ethnography and the Meanings of Human Milk in Ireland / Between 'le corps maternel et le corps érotique': Exploring Women's Experiences of Breastfeeding and Expressing in the UK and France / The Naturalist Discourse Surrounding Breastfeeding among French Mothers / 'Who knows if one day, in the future, they will get married...?': Considerations about Breast Milk, Migration and Milk Banking in Italy / Religion, Wet-nursing and Laying the Ground for Breast Milk Banking in Darfur, Sudan / Between Proscription and Control of Breastfeeding in West Africa: Women's Strategies Regarding Prevention of HIV Transmission / 'Impersonal Perspectives' on Public Health Guidelines on Infant Feeding and HIV in Malawi / Breastfeeding and Bonding: Issues and Dilemmas in Surrogacy / Breast Milk Donation as Care Work / Women and Children First?: Gender, Power and Resources, and their Implications for Infant Feeding / Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom, both of National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland -- Alanna E. F. Rudzik, Durham University, UK -- Aunchalee Palmquist, Elon University, USA -- Tanya Cassidy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland -- Charlotte Faircloth, University of Kent, UK -- Gervaise Debucquet, Audencia Nantes School of Management, France, and Valérie Adt, L'Institut Interdisciplinaire du Contemporain, France -- Rossella Cevese, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy -- Abdullahi El Tom, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland -- Alice Desclaux and Chiara Alfieri, both of Université d'Aix-Marseille, France -- Anne Matthews, Dublin City University, Ireland -- Sunita Reddy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Tulsi Patel, University of Delhi, India, Birgitte Bruun Nielsen, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Malene Tanderup, Aarhus University, Denmark -- Katherine Carroll, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia -- Vanessa Maher, University of Verona, Italy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"Studies of breastfeeding have proliferated over the last decade. Breastfeeding is an intimate and deep-rooted bodily practice and yet also a highly controversial sociocultural process, invoking strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Whilst breastfeeding practices and experiences vary greatly in different parts of the world, reducing infant mortality is a pressing international goal for governments and societies. Representing cross-cultural concerns of researchers, policy-makers and mothers, this important book takes a rich ethnographic survey of breastfeeding all over the world. Breastfeeding is shown to highlight various links between gender, power and resources in culture. Each chapter covers a new topic and ethnic or national group, and major topical themes of research such as the rise of milk banks, mother-to-mother sharing networks facilitated by social media, breast milk and HIV are explored."--Publisher's website.
1472569253 9781472569257
2014019352
Breastfeeding--Cross-cultural studies
Ethnology.
Women--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies
Breastfeeding--Psychological aspects
Breast milk.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Milk Banks
RJ216 / .E78 2015
649.33
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / The Embodied Experience of Breastfeeding and the Product São Paolo, Brazil / Demedicalizing Breast Milk: The Discourses, Practices and Identities of Informal Milk Sharing / Historical Ethnography and the Meanings of Human Milk in Ireland / Between 'le corps maternel et le corps érotique': Exploring Women's Experiences of Breastfeeding and Expressing in the UK and France / The Naturalist Discourse Surrounding Breastfeeding among French Mothers / 'Who knows if one day, in the future, they will get married...?': Considerations about Breast Milk, Migration and Milk Banking in Italy / Religion, Wet-nursing and Laying the Ground for Breast Milk Banking in Darfur, Sudan / Between Proscription and Control of Breastfeeding in West Africa: Women's Strategies Regarding Prevention of HIV Transmission / 'Impersonal Perspectives' on Public Health Guidelines on Infant Feeding and HIV in Malawi / Breastfeeding and Bonding: Issues and Dilemmas in Surrogacy / Breast Milk Donation as Care Work / Women and Children First?: Gender, Power and Resources, and their Implications for Infant Feeding / Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom, both of National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland -- Alanna E. F. Rudzik, Durham University, UK -- Aunchalee Palmquist, Elon University, USA -- Tanya Cassidy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland -- Charlotte Faircloth, University of Kent, UK -- Gervaise Debucquet, Audencia Nantes School of Management, France, and Valérie Adt, L'Institut Interdisciplinaire du Contemporain, France -- Rossella Cevese, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy -- Abdullahi El Tom, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland -- Alice Desclaux and Chiara Alfieri, both of Université d'Aix-Marseille, France -- Anne Matthews, Dublin City University, Ireland -- Sunita Reddy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Tulsi Patel, University of Delhi, India, Birgitte Bruun Nielsen, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Malene Tanderup, Aarhus University, Denmark -- Katherine Carroll, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia -- Vanessa Maher, University of Verona, Italy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"Studies of breastfeeding have proliferated over the last decade. Breastfeeding is an intimate and deep-rooted bodily practice and yet also a highly controversial sociocultural process, invoking strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Whilst breastfeeding practices and experiences vary greatly in different parts of the world, reducing infant mortality is a pressing international goal for governments and societies. Representing cross-cultural concerns of researchers, policy-makers and mothers, this important book takes a rich ethnographic survey of breastfeeding all over the world. Breastfeeding is shown to highlight various links between gender, power and resources in culture. Each chapter covers a new topic and ethnic or national group, and major topical themes of research such as the rise of milk banks, mother-to-mother sharing networks facilitated by social media, breast milk and HIV are explored."--Publisher's website.
1472569253 9781472569257
2014019352
Breastfeeding--Cross-cultural studies
Ethnology.
Women--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies
Breastfeeding--Psychological aspects
Breast milk.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Milk Banks
RJ216 / .E78 2015
649.33