Nighttime breastfeeding : an American cultural dilemma / Cecília Tomori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomori, Cecília, author.

Series:

Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 26.

Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ; volume 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breastfeeding--United States.

Breastfeeding.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Embodied Cultural Dilemmas: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep 25

Chapter 2 Struggles over Authoritative Knowledge and "Choice" in Breastfeeding and Infant Sleep in the United States 55

Chapter 3 Making Breastfeeding Parents in Childbirth Education Courses 89

Chapter 4 Dispatches from the Moral Minefield of Breastfeeding 120

Chapter 5 Breastfeeding as Men's "Kin Work" i44

Chapter 6 Breastfeeding Babies in the Nest: Producing Children, Kinship, and Moral Imagination in the House 171

Chapter 7 Time to Sleep: Nighttime Breastfeeding and Capitalist Temporal Regimes 208.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-288) and index.

ISBN:

1785333461

9781785333460

OCLC:

946006973

Publisher Number:

99969424925