Nighttime breastfeeding : an American cultural dilemma

Nighttime breastfeeding : an American cultural dilemma /

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 cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tomori, Cecília
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Series:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 26.
Subjects:
Breastfeeding > United States.
Sleep > United States.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Breastfeeding
Manners and customs
Sleep
United States > Social life and customs.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes.
United States
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Embodied cultural dilemmas : an anthropological approach to the study of nighttime breastfeeding and sleep
  • Struggles over authoritative knowledge and "choice" in breastfeeding and infant sleep in the U.S.
  • Making breastfeeding parents in childbirth education courses
  • Dispatches from the moral minefield of breastfeeding
  • Breastfeeding as men's "kin work"
  • Breastfeeding babies in the nest : producing children, kinship, and moral imagination in the house
  • Time to sleep : nighttime breastfeeding and capitalist temporal regimes.

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