LLLI
Center for Breastfeeding Information
Journal Abstract of the Month for May 2003
"Contemporary trends
in infant feeding research." By Penny Van Esterik. Annu Rev
Anthropology 2001;31:257-78
This paper was also selected
by UNICEF as "Breastfeeding Paper of the Month" February 2003.
Coming from an anthropological
point of view, the author taps into many different subjects including
the support of exclusive breastfeeding, the history of infant feeding,
the cultural thoughts on the relationship between breastfeeding, sexuality
and lactational amenorrhea, the psychological background of women leading
them to choose to breastfeed or not, breastfeeding and working, and
other topics. This paper will be of particular importance for breastfeeding
advocates and policy makers, as it comes with an international perspective.
Of particular interest was
the exposure of human milk as mysterious, as a vulnerable product which
can reflect badly on the mother implying "a devaluation of the
mothers producing it." The ideology of these myths come from cultures,
health professionals and men.
The categories that this
will be listed in follow: Trends, History of Infant Feeding, Cultural
Attitudes, Sexuality, Definitions, Wet Nursing, Human Milk/Colostrum,
Psychology/Mother, Exclusive Breastfeeding, Supplements, Virus/HIV-AIDS,
Working
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