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, parents, and their relationship.
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
