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Informationen zum Autor Cecília Tomori is a medical anthropologist who has worked as a health services researcher at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and is currently a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Nighttime breastfeeding and sleep for many new parents in the United States is fraught with intense challenges. Through a close ethnographic examination! this volume explores the impact of conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and infant sleep! and uncovers cultural tensions about expectations for children and parents. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
