The Anthropology of breast-feeding
Subtitle: natural law or social construct
By: edited by Vanessa Maher.
Contributors: Maher, Vanessa
Series: Cross-cultural perspectives on women -- v. 3
Publisher: Berg
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford; Herndon, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Breastfeeding -- Cross-cultural studies; Women -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Breast-feeding in cross-cultural perspective : paradoxes and proposals / Vanessa Maher; value: Breast-feeding and baraka in northern Tunisia / Marie-Louise Creyghton; value: Production and pleasure : research on breast-feeding in Turin / Franca Balsamo ... [et al.]; value: A question of reason : breast-feeding patterns in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Iceland / Kirsten Hastrup; value: Milk kinship in Shi'ite Islamic Iran / Jane Khatib-Chahidi; value: Working mothers in rural Nepal / Catherine Panter-Brick; value: Breast-feeding and maternal depletion : natural law or cultural arrangements? / Vanessa Maher