Title: Ethnographies of Breastfeeding
Description: "Studies of breastfeeding have proliferated over the last decade. Breastfeeding is an intimate and deep-rooted bodily practice and yet also a highly controversial sociocultural process, invoking strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Whilst breastfeeding practices and experiences vary greatly in different parts of the world, reducing infant mortality is a pressing international goal for governments and societies. Representing cross-cultural concerns of researchers, policy-makers and mothers, this important book takes a rich ethnographic survey of breastfeeding all over the world. Breastfeeding is shown to highlight various links between gender, power and resources in culture. Each chapter covers a new topic and ethnic or national group, and major topical themes of research such as the rise of milk banks, mother-to-mother sharing networks facilitated by social media, breast milk and HIV are explored"--
Subjects: Breastfeeding, Ethnology, Women, social conditions, Public health, Sociology, Women's studies, Anthropology, Cross-cultural studies, Women, Social conditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Breast Feeding, Psychology, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Milk Banks, Human Milk, General, Social sciences -> sociology -> sociology, Tr, Mng, Social sciences -> sociology -> woman studies, Allied health & medical -> medical -> public health, Social sciences -> anthropology -> general anthropology