Ethnographies Of Breastfeeding

Author : Tanya Cassidy,Abdullahi El Tom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183092

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Ethnographies of Breastfeeding by Tanya Cassidy,Abdullahi El Tom Pdf

Breastfeeding is an intimate and deeply rooted bodily practice, as well as a highly controversial sociocultural process which invokes strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Touching on a wide range of issues such as reproduction, sexuality, power and resources, and maternal and infant health, the controversies and cultural complexities underlying breastfeeding are immense.Ethnographies of Breastfeeding features the latest research on the topic. Some of the leading scholars in the field explore variations in breastfeeding practices from around the world. Based on empirical work in areas such as Brazil, West Africa, Darfur, Ireland, Italy, France, the UK and the US, they examine the cross-cultural challenges facing mothers feeding their infants.Reframing the traditional nature/culture debate, the book moves beyond existing approaches to consider themes such as surrogacy, the risk of milk banks, mother-to-mother sharing networks facilitated by social media, and the increasing bio-medicalization of breast milk, which is leading its transformation from process to product. A highly important contribution to global debates on breast milk and breastfeeding.

Author : Cecília Tomori,Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist,EA Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351383608

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Breastfeeding by Cecília Tomori,Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist,EA Quinn Pdf

Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches unites sociocultural, biological, and archaeological anthropological scholarship to spark new conversations and research about breastfeeding. While breastfeeding has become the subject of intense debate in many settings, anthropological perspectives have played a limited role in these conversations. The present volume seeks to broaden discussions around breastfeeding by showcasing fresh insights gleaned from an array of theoretical and methodological approaches, which are grounded in the close study of people across the globe. Drawing on case studies and analyses of key issues in the field, the book highlights the power of anthropological research to illuminate the evolutionary, historical, biological, and sociocultural context of the complex, lived experience of breastfeeding. By bringing together researchers across three anthropological subfields, the volume seeks to produce transformative knowledge about human lactation, breastfeeding, and human milk. This book is a key resource for scholars of medical and biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, bioarchaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and human development. Lactation professionals and peer supporters, midwives, and others who support infant feeding will find the book an essential read.

Author : Vanessa Maher
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015025392773

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Anthropology of Breast-Feeding by Vanessa Maher Pdf

On the whole, the debates surrounding the issues of breast-feeding - often reflecting ethnographic and ill-informed medical and demographic approaches - have failed to treat the deeper issues. The significance of breast-feeding reaches far beyond its biological function; in fact, the authors of this volume argue, there is nothing `natural' about breast-feeding itself. On the contrary, attitudes and practices are socially determined, and breast-feeding has to be seen as an essential element in the cultural construction of sexuality. This volume offers an `ethnography' of breast-feeding by examining cultural norms and practices in a number of European and non-European societies, thus presenting valuable and often astonishing empirical material that is not otherwise readily available. The highly original focus of this volume therefore throws new light on gender and on social relationships in general.

Author : Tanya Cassidy,Abdullahi El Tom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189728

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Ethnographies of Breastfeeding by Tanya Cassidy,Abdullahi El Tom Pdf

Breastfeeding is an intimate and deeply rooted bodily practice, as well as a highly controversial sociocultural process which invokes strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Touching on a wide range of issues such as reproduction, sexuality, power and resources, and maternal and infant health, the controversies and cultural complexities underlying breastfeeding are immense.Ethnographies of Breastfeeding features the latest research on the topic. Some of the leading scholars in the field explore variations in breastfeeding practices from around the world. Based on empirical work in areas such as Brazil, West Africa, Darfur, Ireland, Italy, France, the UK and the US, they examine the cross-cultural challenges facing mothers feeding their infants.Reframing the traditional nature/culture debate, the book moves beyond existing approaches to consider themes such as surrogacy, the risk of milk banks, mother-to-mother sharing networks facilitated by social media, and the increasing bio-medicalization of breast milk, which is leading its transformation from process to product. A highly important contribution to global debates on breast milk and breastfeeding.

Author : Tanya Cassidy,Fiona Dykes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351364102

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Banking on Milk by Tanya Cassidy,Fiona Dykes Pdf

Banking on Milk takes the reader on a journey through the everyday life of donor human milk banking across the United Kingdom (UK) and beyond, asking questions such as the following: Why do people decide to donate? How do parents of recipients hear about human milk? How does milk donation impact on lifestyle choices? Chapters record the practical everyday reality of work in a milk bank by drawing on extensive ethnographic observations and sensitive interview data from donors, mothers of recipients and the staff of four different milk banks from across the UK, and visits to milk banks across Europe and North America. It discusses the ongoing pressures to do with supply, demand and distribution. An empirically informed "ethnography of the contemporary", where both biosociality and biopower abound, this book includes an exploration of how milk banks evolved from registering wet nurses with hospitals, showing how a regulatory culture of medical authority began to quantify and organize human milk as a commodity. This book is a valuable read for all those with an interest in breastfeeding or organ and tissue donation from a range of fields, including midwifery, sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies and public health.

Author : Vanessa Maher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1390782836

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The anthropology of breast-feeding by Vanessa Maher Pdf

Author : Patricia Stuart-Macadam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781351530743

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Breastfeeding by Patricia Stuart-Macadam Pdf

Breastfeeding is a biocultural phenomenon: not only is it a biological process, but it is also a culturally determined behavior. As such, it has important implications for understanding the past, present, and future condition of our species. In general, scholars have emphasized either the biological or the cultural aspects of breastfeeding, but not both. As biological anthropologists the editors of this volume feel that an evolutionary approach combining both aspects is essential. One of the goals of their book is to incorporate data from diverse fields to present a more holistic view of breastfeeding, through the inclusion of research from a number of different disciplines, including biological and social/cultural anthropology, nutrition, and medicine. The resulting book, presenting the complexity of the issues surrounding very basic decisions about infant nutrition, will fill a void in the existing literature on breastfeeding.

Author : Susan Falls
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803277212

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White Gold by Susan Falls Pdf

Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States. Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing “white gold”—seen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substance—is a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values. Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.

Author : Patricia Stuart-Macadam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781351530736

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Breastfeeding by Patricia Stuart-Macadam Pdf

Breastfeeding is a biocultural phenomenon: not only is it a biological process, but it is also a culturally determined behavior. As such, it has important implications for understanding the past, present, and future condition of our species. In general, scholars have emphasized either the biological or the cultural aspects of breastfeeding, but not both. As biological anthropologists the editors of this volume feel that an evolutionary approach combining both aspects is essential. One of the goals of their book is to incorporate data from diverse fields to present a more holistic view of breastfeeding, through the inclusion of research from a number of different disciplines, including biological and social/cultural anthropology, nutrition, and medicine. The resulting book, presenting the complexity of the issues surrounding very basic decisions about infant nutrition, will fill a void in the existing literature on breastfeeding.

Author : Cecília Tomori
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781782384366

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Nighttime Breastfeeding by Cecília Tomori Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Falls
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781496202697

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White Gold by Susan Falls Pdf

Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States. Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing "white gold"--seen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substance--is a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values. Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.

Author : Fiona Dykes,Renée Flacking
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317647928

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Ethnographic Research in Maternal and Child Health by Fiona Dykes,Renée Flacking Pdf

A unique and innovative resource for conducting ethnographic research in health care settings, Ethnographic Research in Maternal and Child Health provides a combination of ethnographic theory and an international selection of empirical case studies. The book begins with an overview of the origins and development of ethnography as a methodology, discussing underpinning theoretical perspectives, key methods and challenges related to conducting this type of research. The following substantive chapters present and reflect on ethnographic studies conducted in the fields of maternal and child health, neonatal nursing, midwifery and reproductive health. Designed for academics, postgraduate students and health practitioners within maternal and child health, family health, medical sociology, medical anthropology, medicine, midwifery, neonatal care, paediatrics, social anthropology and public health, the book will also illuminate issues that can help health practitioners to improve service delivery.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bottle feeding
ISBN : 1858991552

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An Ethnography Concerning the Supplementation of Breastfed Babies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Penny Van Esterik,Richard A. O’Connor
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781785335631

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The Dance of Nurture by Penny Van Esterik,Richard A. O’Connor Pdf

Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.

Author : P. Stuart-Macadam,K.a. Dettwyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110151677

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Breastfeeding by P. Stuart-Macadam,K.a. Dettwyler Pdf