Breast Feeding and Sexuality : : Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania /

Breast Feeding and Sexuality : : Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania / / Mara Mabilia.

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Whereas in western countries breastfeeding is an uncontroversial, purely personal issue, in most parts of the world mother and baby form part of a network of interpersonal relations with its own rules and expectations. In this study, the author examines the cultural and social context of breastfeedi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Mabilia, Mara,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1 CIGONGWE
  • CHAPTER 2 THE GOGO WOMEN
  • CHAPTER 3 BREAST FEEDING
  • CHAPTER 4 THE ‘GOOD MOTHER’, THE ‘BAD MOTHER’: DIARRHOEA AS A SIGN OF SOCIAL DISORDER
  • CHAPTER 5 MATERNAL MILK: INDICATOR OF ‘GOOD MOTHER’
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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