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Author Faircloth, Charlotte.

Title Militant lactivism? : attachment parenting and intensive motherhood in the UK and France / Charlotte Faircloth
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) : illustrations
Series Fertility, reproduction and sexuality ; v. 24
Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 24.
Contents List of Illustrations; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I -- The Context of Contemporary Mothering; Chapter 1 -- Intensive Motherhood and Identity Work; Chapter 2 -- Infant Feeding and Intensive Motherhood; Part II -- La Leche League; Chapter 3 -- Contextualising 'Full-Term' Breastfeeding; Chapter 4 -- La Leche League: Philosophy and Community; Chapter 5 -- 'Finding My Tribe'; Part III -- Accounting for Full-Term Breastfeeding; Chapter 6 -- 'It's Natural': Some Cultural Contradictions; Chapter 7 -- 'What Science Says Is Best': Science as Dogma
Chapter 8 -- 'What Feels Right in My Heart': Hormones, Morality and Affective BreastfeedingPart IV -- Contextualising Intensive Motherhood; Chapter 9 -- Mothering as Identity Work in Comparative Perspective: The Case of France; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; References; Index
Summary 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 -
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Breastfeeding -- England
Breastfeeding -- France
Infants -- Nutrition -- England
Infants -- Nutrition -- France
Parenting -- Social aspects
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Breastfeeding
Infants -- Nutrition
Parenting -- Social aspects
Amning.
Spädbarn.
Nutrition.
England
France
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012019036
ISBN 9780857457592
0857457594
1299777643
9781299777644
9780857457585
0857457586