Militant Lactivism? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Militant Lactivism? write by Charlotte Faircloth. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Militant Lactivism? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a period of several years, as part of an 'attachment parenting' philosophy. These mothers talk about their decision to continue breastfeeding as 'the natural thing to do': 'evolutionarily appropriate', 'scientifically best' and 'what feels right in their hearts'. Through a theoretical focus on knowledge claims and accountability, the author frames these accounts within a wider context of 'intensive parenting', arguing that parenting practices – infant feeding in particular – have become a highly moralized affair for mothers, practices which they feel are a critical aspect of their 'identity work'. The book investigates why, how and with what implications some of these mothers describe themselves as 'militant lactivists' and reflects on wider parenting culture in the UK and France. Discussing gender, feminism and activism, this study contributes to kinship and family studies by exploring how relatedness is enacted in conjunction to constructions of the self.
Militant Lactivism
Militant Lactivism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Militant Lactivism write by Charlotte Faircloth. This book was released on 2013. Militant Lactivism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Dance of Nurture
The Dance of Nurture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dance of Nurture write by Penny Van Esterik. This book was released on 2017-06-01. The Dance of Nurture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.
Sharing Milk
Sharing Milk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sharing Milk write by Carter, Shannon K.. This book was released on 2020-10-09. Sharing Milk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants. Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this dynamic new analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing milk sharing practice in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the US. Ranging widely across themes of motherhood, gender and sociology, this is a compelling empirical account of infant feeding that stimulates new thinking about a contentious practice.
Children’s Healthcare and Parental Media Engagement in Urban China
Children’s Healthcare and Parental Media Engagement in Urban China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children’s Healthcare and Parental Media Engagement in Urban China write by Qian Gong. This book was released on 2016-10-25. Children’s Healthcare and Parental Media Engagement in Urban China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses parental anxieties about their children’s healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety. It examines the broader social, cultural and historical contexts of parental anxiety by analysing a series of socio-economic changes and population policy changes in post-reform China that contextualise parental experiences. Drawing on Wilkinson’s (2001) conceptualisation linking individual’s risk consciousness to anxiety, this book analyses the situated risk experiences of parents’ and grandparents’, looking particularly into their engagement with various types of media. It studies the representations of health issues and health-related risks in a parenting magazine, popular newspapers, commercial advertising and new media, as well as parents’ and grandparents’ engagement with and response to these media representations. By investigating ‘a culture of anxiety’ among parents and grandparents in contemporary China, this book seeks to add to the scholarship of contemporary parenthood in a non- Western context.
