TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cassidy,Tanya
AU  - Tom,Abdullahi Osman El-
TI  - Ethnographies of breastfeeding: cultural contexts and confrontations 
SN  - 1472569253
AV  - RJ216 .E78 2015
U1  - 649.33 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Breastfeeding
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Breast milk
KW  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
KW  - Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
KW  - Milk Banks
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom, both of National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland --; 1; The Embodied Experience of Breastfeeding and the Product São Paolo, Brazil; Alanna E. F. Rudzik, Durham University, UK --; 2; Demedicalizing Breast Milk: The Discourses, Practices and Identities of Informal Milk Sharing; Aunchalee Palmquist, Elon University, USA --; 3; Historical Ethnography and the Meanings of Human Milk in Ireland; Tanya Cassidy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland --; 4; Between 'le corps maternel et le corps érotique': Exploring Women's Experiences of Breastfeeding and Expressing in the UK and France; Charlotte Faircloth, University of Kent, UK --; 5; The Naturalist Discourse Surrounding Breastfeeding among French Mothers; Gervaise Debucquet, Audencia Nantes School of Management, France, and Valérie Adt, L'Institut Interdisciplinaire du Contemporain, France --; 6; 'Who knows if one day, in the future, they will get married...?': Considerations about Breast Milk, Migration and Milk Banking in Italy; Rossella Cevese, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy --; 7; Religion, Wet-nursing and Laying the Ground for Breast Milk Banking in Darfur, Sudan; Abdullahi El Tom, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland --; 8; Between Proscription and Control of Breastfeeding in West Africa: Women's Strategies Regarding Prevention of HIV Transmission; Alice Desclaux and Chiara Alfieri, both of Université d'Aix-Marseille, France --; 9; 'Impersonal Perspectives' on Public Health Guidelines on Infant Feeding and HIV in Malawi; Anne Matthews, Dublin City University, Ireland --; 10; Breastfeeding and Bonding: Issues and Dilemmas in Surrogacy; Sunita Reddy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Tulsi Patel, University of Delhi, India, Birgitte Bruun Nielsen, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Malene Tanderup, Aarhus University, Denmark --; 11; Breast Milk Donation as Care Work; Katherine Carroll, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia --; 12; Women and Children First?: Gender, Power and Resources, and their Implications for Infant Feeding; Vanessa Maher, University of Verona, Italy
N2  - "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
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