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Author: Caroline Chautems
Publisher: Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction
Published: 2023-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780367643546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers new perspectives on the conceptualisation of breastfeeding as a shared process.
Author: Corinna Sabrina Guerzoni
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2022-04-07
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1800714386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economic processes, providing examples from multiple countries.
Author: Patricia Stuart Macadam
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 020236447X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Annie Mark
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000-11-01
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780028639482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides advice and tips to new mothers on why, how, and when to breastfeed, including information on choosing a breast pump, preventing breast infections, and practicing proper techniques.
Author: Robyn Lee
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1487503717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResponding to the most widely read breastfeeding manual, La Leche League's The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Robyn Lee's The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an art that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process. The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding challenges the dominant understanding of breastfeeding and cultivates an alternative conception as an ethical, embodied practice of the self. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, and Luce Irigaray, Lee develops a new understanding of breastfeeding as an "art of living," where the practice is reconsidered in the light of ongoing social inequalities.
Author: Anne Marie Short
Publisher: Demeter Press
Published: 2018-04-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1772581763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor myriad reasons, breastfeeding is a fraught issue among mothers in the U.S. and other industrialized nations, and breastfeeding advocacy in particular remains a source of contention for feminist scholars and activists. Breastfeeding raises many important concerns surrounding gendered embodiment, reproductive rights and autonomy, essentializing discourses and the struggle against biology as destiny, and public policies that have the potential to support or undermine women, and mothers in particular, in the workplace. The essays in this collection engage with the varied and complicated ways in which cultural attitudes about mothering and female sexuality inform the way people understand, embrace, reject, and talk about breastfeeding, as well as with the promises and limitations of feminist breastfeeding advocacy. They attend to diffuse discourses about and cultural representations of infant feeding, all the while utilizing feminist methodologies to interrogate essentializing ideologies that suggest that women’s bodies are the “natural” choice for infant feeding. These interdisciplinary analyses, which include history, law, art history, literary studies, sociology, critical race studies, media studies, communication studies, and history, are meant to represent a broader conversation about how society understands infant feeding and maternal autonomy.
Author: Amy Lunn Koerber
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEpidemiologic evidence demonstrating the health benefits of human milk has grown in recent years, but the story of why these forms of evidence have dramatically increased in recent decades, Koerber reveals, is a tale of the dedicated individuals, coalitions, and organizations engaged in relentless rhetorical efforts to improve our scientific explanations and cultural appreciation of human milk, lactation, and breastfeeding in the context of a historical tendency to devalue these distinctly female aspects of the human body. Koerber demonstrates that the rhetoric used to promote breastfeeding at a given time and cultural moment not only reflects a preexisting reality but also shapes the infant-feeding experience for new mothers. Koerber's claims are grounded in extensive rhetorical research including textual analysis, archival research, and interviews with key stakeholders in the breastfeeding controversy.
Author: Karen Wambach
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 986
ISBN-13: 1449697283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBreastfeeding and Human Lactation, Fifth Edition continues as the leading reference for the latest clinical techniques and research findings that direct evidence-based clinical practice for lactation consultants and specialists. Now in its Fifth Edition, it contains a clear clinical focus with more than 2,000 research studies supporting the clinical recommendations found in the text. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised with current research, references, and photos. To make studying and learning easier, each chapter includes key concepts, Internet resources, and evidence-based tables and boxes. Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Fifth Edition is also an excellent resource to prepare for certification and practice as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).
Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-05-05
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1000574288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives, doulas, nurses, and obstetricians—to take a fresh look at the "standard procedures" that are routinely used to "manage" American childbirth. It was the first book to identify these non-evidence-based obstetric interventions as rituals that enact and transmit the core values of the American technocracy, thereby answering the pressing question of why these interventions continue to be performed despite all evidence to the contrary. This third edition brings together Davis-Floyd's insights into the intense ritualization of labor and birth and the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models of birth with new data collected in recent years.
Author: Tanya Cassidy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-27
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1000189724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBreastfeeding is an intimate and deeply rooted bodily practice, as well as a highly controversial sociocultural process which invokes strong reactions from advocates and opponents. Touching on a wide range of issues such as reproduction, sexuality, power and resources, and maternal and infant health, the controversies and cultural complexities underlying breastfeeding are immense.Ethnographies of Breastfeeding features the latest research on the topic. Some of the leading scholars in the field explore variations in breastfeeding practices from around the world. Based on empirical work in areas such as Brazil, West Africa, Darfur, Ireland, Italy, France, the UK and the US, they examine the cross-cultural challenges facing mothers feeding their infants.Reframing the traditional nature/culture debate, the book moves beyond existing approaches to consider themes such as surrogacy, the risk of milk banks, mother-to-mother sharing networks facilitated by social media, and the increasing bio-medicalization of breast milk, which is leading its transformation from process to product. A highly important contribution to global debates on breast milk and breastfeeding.
