Nighttime Breastfeeding

An American Cultural Dilemma
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-346-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomori, Cecília

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tomori, Cecília
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.

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.