Overview

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.

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Author:   Cecilia Tomori
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   26
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9781785333460

ISBN 10:   1785333461
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   01 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Embodied Cultural Dilemmas: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep Chapter 2. Struggles Over Authoritative Knowledge and Choice in Breastfeeding and Infant Sleep in the U.S. Chapter 3. Making Breastfeeding Parents in Childbirth Education Courses Chapter 4. Dispatches from the Moral Minefield of Breastfeeding Chapter 5. Breastfeeding as Men's Kin Work Chapter 6. Breastfeeding Babies in the Nest: Producing Children, Kinship, and Moral Imagination in the House Chapter 7. Time to Sleep: Nighttime Breastfeeding and Capitalist Temporal Regimes Conclusion Appendixes Bibliography Index

Reviews

In this beautifully written ethnography, based on fieldwork with a sample of first-time heterosexual parents in the Midwest United States, Cecilia Tomori provides a broad-ranging yet in-depth discussion of numerous anthropological topics, including kinship, reproduction, and personhood...This book is a pleasure to read, and will be of interest not only to scholars of gender, kinship, and reproduction, but also to those who work on the subjects of embodiment, authoritative knowledge, expertise, morality, the house, and temporality. It deserves to be read widely, both within the academy and beyond. * Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute

Author Information

Cecilia Tomori is a medical anthropologist who has worked as a health services researcher at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and is currently a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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