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Home  ▸  Blog Posts  ▸  Links: Cultural Context of Breastfeeding and Parenting Choic ...

Links: Cultural Context of Breastfeeding and Parenting Choices

Low Breastfeeding Rates and Public Health in the United States by Jacqueline H. Wolf, PhD

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.

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Attachment Parenting in a Detached World by Jennifer Coburn

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. 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.

Baumslag N and Michels DL. Milk, Money, and Madness: The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey Trade, 1995.

Updated on March 24, 2018Filed Under: Blog Posts

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