Nighttime breastfeeding an American cultural dilemma /

Tomori, Cecília.

Nighttime breastfeeding an American cultural dilemma / Cecília Tomori. - New York, NY : Berghahn Books, (c)2014. - 1 online resource : illustrations. - Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ; volume 26 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Embodied cultural dilemmas : an anthropological approach to the study of nighttime breastfeeding and sleep -- Struggles over authoritative knowledge and "choice" in breastfeeding and infant sleep in the U.S. -- Making breastfeeding parents in childbirth education courses -- Dispatches from the moral minefield of breastfeeding -- Breastfeeding as men's "kin work" -- Breastfeeding babies in the nest : producing children, kinship, and moral imagination in the house -- Time to sleep : nighttime breastfeeding and capitalist temporal regimes.



9781782384366


Breastfeeding--United States.
Sleep--United States.


Electronic Books.

RJ216 / .N544 2014