{"id":8794,"date":"2023-08-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:47:52","slug":"world-breastfeeding-week-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/world-breastfeeding-week-2016","title":{"rendered":"World Breastfeeding Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World Breastfeeding Week is held yearly from 1st to 7th of August in more than 120 countries. Being organized by WABA<\/a><\/em>, WHO<\/a><\/em> and UNICEF<\/em><\/a>, the goal is to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life which yields tremendous health benefits, providing critical nutrients, protection from deadly diseases and fostering growth. To learn more please visit www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Berghahn is pleased to highlight our Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality<\/em> Series<\/a>, as well as selection of other relevant titles and journal articles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE DANCE OF NURTURE<\/a>
Negotiating Infant Feeding
Penny Van Esterik and Richard A. O’Connor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 6, Food, Nutrition, and Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dance of Nurture<\/em> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality<\/a><\/em> Series<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding the complex and multifaceted issue of human reproduction has been, and remains, of great interest both to academics and practitioners. This series includes studies by specialists in the field of social, cultural, medical, and biological anthropology, medical demography, psychology, and development studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Volume 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NIGHTTIME BREASTFEEDING<\/a>
An American Cultural Dilemma
Cec\u00edlia Tomori<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this beautifully written ethnography\u2026 Cec\u0131lia Tomori provides a broad\u2010ranging yet in\u2010depth discussion of numerous anthropological topics, including kinship, reproduction, and personhood\u2026 This book is a pleasure to read, and will be of interest not only to scholars of gender, kinship, and reproduction, but also to those who work on the subjects of embodiment, authoritative knowledge, expertise, morality, the house, and temporality. It deserves to be read widely, both within the academy and beyond.\u201d<\/em> \u2219 Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PREGNANCY IN PRACTICE<\/a>
Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US
Sallie Han<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>Pregnancy in Practice is a feminist contribution to the anthropology of reproduction in that it explores the quotidian experiences of pregnant women\u2026While her sample is by no means statistically representative of the experiences of American women, the women in her ethnography represent the normative prenatal experience in America. Han successfully demonstrates that the concept of an \u2018ordinary\u2019 or \u2018norma\u2019 pregnancy is a phantom itself. Because of this work, perhaps we can definitively say that all women have ordinary pregnancies, or perhaps none do.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Association for Feminist Anthropology Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Volume 24
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 BSA PHILIP ABRAMS MEMORIAL PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MILITANT LACTIVISM?<\/a>
Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France
Charlotte Faircloth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is an attentive ethnography of women in London and Paris who are members of the international breastfeeding support organisation La Leche League (LLL)\u2026 The book is written in a clear and engaging way and can be recommended to students and scholars interested in kinship and family studies, as well as for those looking for a good anthropological study on contemporary motherhood.\u201d <\/em> \u00b7  Social Anthropology\/Anthropologie sociale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BREAST FEEDING AND SEXUALITY<\/a>
Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania
Mara Mabilia
Translated from the Italian by Mary S. Ash<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis volume is exemplary in the field of anthropological research\u2026The writing style is clear and reflective\u2026I recommend Breastfeeding and Sexuality for those interested in Tanzanian maternal\u2013child health practices, cross-cultural studies, anthropological research methods, breast-feeding and women\u2019s experiences.\u201d<\/em>  \u00b7  Journal of Biosocial Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a full list of titles please visit Series webpage<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\"AnthropologyBreastfeeding Practices among Pastoral Tribes in the Middle East: A Cross-Cultural Study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anthropology of the Middle East<\/em><\/a>, Volume 2, Number 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Open Access!<\/em><\/span>
The main purpose of this article is to describe traditional breastfeeding practices among the pastoral tribes in the Middle East. It also examines beliefs and attitudes towards breastfeeding and related issues, including pregnancy, infections of the breast nipple, sources of milk, \u2018bad milk\u2019 syndrome and breastfeeding as a contraceptive method. The most significant findings are that mothers relate breastfeeding to their physical and psychological state.<\/p>\n

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The Guilty Brelfie: Censored Breastfeeding Selfies Reclaim Public Space<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Screen Bodies, <\/em>Volume 4, Issue 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breastfeeding mothers and their babies are simultaneously in the public sphere and hidden from public view. Although social media has the potential to normalize attitudes toward breastfeeding by increasing visibility, Facebook and Instagram maintain an unpredictable censorship policy toward \u201cbrelfies\u201d\u2014female breast selfies\u2014which has undermined progress. By deconstructing controversial case studies, this article concludes that brelfies have increased breastfeeding’s accessibility and acceptability in the material world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World Breastfeeding Week is held yearly from 1st to 7th of August in more than 120 countries. Being organized by WABA, WHO and UNICEF, the goal is to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life which yields tremendous health benefits, providing critical nutrients, protection from deadly diseases and fostering growth. To learn more… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,107,311,1772,1740,113,427,1726,431,514,1771,545,550,280,109,94,230,296,1813,668,1001,499,1745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19213,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/19213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}