Cecília Tomori

Nighttime Breastfeeding

An American Cultural Dilemma

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nighttime breastfeeding and sleep for many new parents in the United States is fraught with intense challenges. Through a close ethnographic examination, this volume explores the impact of conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and infant sleep, and uncovers cultural tensions about expectations for children, parents, and their relationship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9781782384359
• ISBN-10: 1782384359
• Artikelnr.: 42070464

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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