Nighttime Breastfeeding : : An American Cultural Dilemma / / Cecília Tomori.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Tomori, Cecília,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 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 United States -- Chapter 3. Making Breastfeeding Parents in Childbirth Education Courses -- Chapter 4. Dispatches from the Moral Minefi eld 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 -- Appendix I. Sleeping/Feeding Log -- Appendix II. Table of Demographic Characteristics of the Couples Involved in the Study -- Appendix III. Biographical Sketches of the Core Participants -- Bibliography -- Index