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Links: Cultural Context of Breastfeeding and Parenting Choices
The
Cultural Art of Breastfeeding by Cynthia Good Mojab, MS
Ammawell, Cynthia
Good Mojab's website, "dedicated to the support and understanding
of the family and its members in their cultural context"
Cultural
Diversity and Breastfeeding by Sheila Weibert, WHNP, IBCLC
The
Culture of Parenting by Nancy E. Wight MD, FAAP, IBCLC
Breastfeeding
in a Bottle-feeding Culture: How society influences women's decisions
by Amy Spangler
Straight
Talk About Real Babies: Defining New-Mom Expectations by Ann
Calandro, BSN, RNC, IBCLC
The
Legacy Of Scientific Motherhood: Why Breastfeeding And Attachment
Parenting Come Under Constant Fire, a commentary by Marie Davis,
RN, IBCLC
Breastfeeding
And Artificial Babymilk; The Culture And Politics In Breastfeeding
by Maya I Johansen
If breastfeeding
is so great, why are the rates so low? from ProMOM.org
Sleep
With Me: A Trans-Cultural Look at the Power – and Protection
– of Sharing a Bed by Meredith F. Small, from Mothering
magazine, Nov/Dec 1998
Cultural
Influences on Infant and Childhood Sleep Biology, and The Science
that Studies It: Toward a More Inclusive Paradigm by James J.McKenna
Ph.D.
Societal
Influences on Sleep Research by Barbara Nicholson
Breastfeeding:
A Cultural Perspective - Understanding a Mother’s Breastfeeding
Worldview And Providing Culturally Sensitive Support, A Role-Play
by Pauline Dunn
Controlled
crying... oops sorry controlled comforting by Sue Cox RN, RM,
IBCLC, ABA breastfeeding counsellor
Attachment
Parenting in a Detached World by Jennifer Coburn
Message in a Bottle:
Breast-feeding vs. Formula-feeding by Linda Baker
Social
and biological determinants of lactation by Salvador Villalpando,
Samuel Flores-Huerta, Mardia López-Alarcón, and Ignacia
Cisneros-Silva
The
cultural context of breastfeeding and breastfeeding policy by
Penny Van Esterik (scroll about halfway down the page to find this
paper)
Small, M. Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape
the Way We Parent. Dell Pub Co., 1999. Here is a review
of the book from LEAVEN, Vol. 35 No. 2, April-May 1999, p. 38.
In addition, amazon.com has 39 excerpt
pages from the book.
P. Stuart- Macadam and K.A. Dettwyler (eds.). Breastfeeding:
Biocultural Perspectives. NY: Aldine De Gruyter, 1995. See excerpt
from Chapter 7: Dettwyler, Katherine. "Beauty
and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United
States."
Baumslag N and Michels DL. Milk,
Money, and Madness: The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding.
Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey Trade, 1995.
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10/10/2005
