Nighttime Breastfeeding

An American Cultural Dilemma

Cecília Tomori, Tomori

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English

Berghahn Books
01 October 2016

Sociology: birth; Sociology: family & relationships; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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.

By: Cecília Tomori Tomori
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 26
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9781785333460
ISBN 10: 1785333461
Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 01 October 2016
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Replaced By: 9781805398288
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Cecília Tomori is an Associate Professor and Director of Global Public Health and Community Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Reviews for Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American Cultural Dilemma

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